Twitter: The Founded (Jack Dorsey)

Twitter: The Founded

The Origins:

Twitter is a Californian company situated in San Francisco. The product, Twitter, was a product of the pod-casting company Odeo. After several years in brainstorming, Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass, are known as the founders of Twitter. The company launched the Twitter site on March 21st 2006, and over the following years, the site slowly started to grow in the amount of user that have signed on to Twitter. 

The Management:

Currently, Dick Costolo is the CEO of Twitter, who had replaced Evan Williams, when he had replaced Jack Dorsey. The Twitter product was the brainchild of Jack Dorsey (primarily), who had been studying computer programming at Bishop DuBourg High School. He had created dispatch software that, to this day, is still being used by taxicab companies. Regarding the other founders, Evan Williams is known for being a freelance computer writer, Biz Stone begun his career as an artist, and (the former) Noah Glass had worked as a software developer.

The Solutions it Provided:

Twitter allows the user to receive instant self-gratification via the tweets the user sends to the internet. In addition, it is also a fast way to fame (or in most cases, infamy) through the viral videos, pictures and tweets sent.

The Problems it Caused:

All social media sites cause controversy to some extent, through racist arguments to bullying, etc. Twitter is not different. One such infamous moment of controversy is when Barack Obama's thoughts of Kanye West interrupting Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards ("He's a Jackass"), was posted on Twitter by ABC News. 

Evan Spiegel - Snap Chat

Snap Chat

Main founder of Snap Chat 

Evan Spiegel, Reggie Brown, Bobby Murphy

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 Year founded

September 2011

CEO

Evan spiegel

How company started

Snap chat was started by Brown and Spiegel as a project for one of spiegel's classes at stanford University where spiegel was a product design major. beginning under the name "picaboo,"the two later brought murphy into the project to code the application. when spiegel floated the idea in april 2011 in front  of the product design class for his final project, classmates balked at the idea of the impermanent photos. snap chat first launched in july 2011 under the name picboo in spiegel's father's living room, though the application was later renamed and relaunched under the snap chat.

Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim - YouTube

Founders:  Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim.

Company product:  YouTube.

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Founded:  February 14th 2005

Headquarters:  San Bruno, California

Current CEO:  Susan Wojcicki

How Company Started

Hurley and Chen developed the idea for YouTube during the early months of 2005, after they had experienced difficulty sharing videos that had been shot at a dinner party at Chen's apartment in San Francisco.

Karim said the inspiration for YouTube first came from Janet Jackson's role in the 2004 Super Bowl incident, when her breast was exposed during her performance, and later from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Karim could not easily find video clips of either event online, which led to the idea of a video sharing site.

What Problems Did It Solve?

Sharing videos

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Steve Jobs - Apple

 



Main founders :    Steve Jobs 

Company name/product: Steve jobs was an American entrepreneur, marketing and inventor. who was the cofounder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc.

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Year founded: The Apple II started in 1977 and the company Apple Computer was formed shortly afterwards. The Apple II was credited with starting the personal computer boom.

Headquarters: Steve Jobs' untouched office still has his name on the door.
NEXT'S first offices were Steve Jobs' own mansion in Woodside. The company then consisted of Steve and his five co-founders, and they were still thinking up ideas for their company, while being used by Apple.

How company started: He is widely recognized as a charismatic and design-driven pioneer of the personal computer revolution and for his influential career in the computer industry.

Experience:
At Pepsi, in the 1970s, Sculley managed to capture significant market share from rival Coca-Cola by creating the "Pepsi Challenge," an ad campaign in which the company recruited people off the street to participate in a blind taste test between Coke and Pepsi and filmed their reactions.

Where company started :
In 1972, Steve Wozniak designed his own version of the classic video game Pong. After finishing it, Wozniak gave the board to Jobs, who then took the game down to Atari, Inc. in Los Gatos, California. Atari thought that Jobs had built it and gave him a job as a technician. Atari's cofounder Nolan Bushnell later described him as "difficult but valuable," pointing out that "he was very often the smartest guy in the room, and he would let people know that.

What problem were apple solving:  

• Apple has created and developed computers and software that were more advanced than computers around at that time.     
• Apple has a spotlight where you can look at all the files that you lost or misplace it
• When Mac OS X runs out of space in RAM for all the programs and data you're using at once, it moves some of them to a hidden temporary file on the hard disk.  

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Larry Page and Sergey Brin - Google

Founders: Larry Page and Sergey Brin


Company Information: ›Started with two Students Larry Page and Sergey Brin who were doing a Ph.d. at Stanford University, when they got the idea to create a search engine.


Date Founded: 1998


Headquarters:  Mountain View C.A

Individual Net Worth:  As of February 2015, Larry Page was estimated to be worth $29.8 Billion whereas Sergery Brin is now worth $29.3 Billion.

Experiences:

Larry Page
Larry Page holds a bachelor of Science in computer engineering from the University from Michigan.Larry Page became interested in technology and business when he was 12 years old.


Sergey Brin 

Sergey graduated  in Computer science at Stanford University in California .

CEO: Larry Page 

What problem was Google solving:
Ability to create advanced custom services on the internet that include results from domains from outside its main facilities and advanced search features, including searching for videos, audio content as well as PDF, .doc and .ppt file

Easy and powerful search administration.

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Miner, Rubin & Sears - Android

Main Founder:

Andy Rubin is the co-founder and former CEO of Android Inc. He was Senior Vice President of Mobile and Digital Content at Google until March 2013.

Company product name:

Miner, Rubin & Sears founded the company called Android Inc. Android is a mobile operating system based on the Linux kernel and it is currently developed by Google. Android is the most widely used Mobile OS.

Year founded

Android was founded in October 2003 in Palo Alto California. The company was brought by Google in 2005.

Headquarters

Googolplex (Google's headquarters) in Mountain View, California.

What problem product was solving

Android has been made to be more portable for users to get different applications from different app stores like Apple App store, Google Play etc.

Experience of founders

Andy Rubin began his career as engineer at Apple in 1989. He then worked at Spinoff general magic where is he involved in developing an operating system.

Current CEO 

Sunder Pichai.

  

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Mike Lazairdis - BlackBerry

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Founders: Mike Lazairdis and Doug Fregin

Company Information: RIM, which was named way back in 1984 when the company was started by Mike Lazaridis and Doug Fregin, was renamed as a part of the major changes the company is undergoing.

The Canadian company was one of the top brands in 2008, 

Logo: The old RIM logos were replaced by the new BlackBerry boarding’s overnight.

Year Founded: The company BlackBerry was founded in 1984, Waterloo, Canada.

Headquarters: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada BlackBerry Limited, Headquarters.

Current CEO: John S. Chen is the CEO of BlackBerry Ltd. 

How BlackBerry Started: RIM's early development was financed by Canadian institutional and venture capital investors in 1995 through a private placement in the privately held company.

In 1999 RIM introduced the BlackBerry 850 pager.

Named in reference to the resemblance of its keyboard's keys to the druplets of the blackberry fruit, the device could receive push email from a Microsoft Exchange Serverusing its complementary server software, BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES).

The introduction of the BlackBerry set the stage for future enterprise-oriented products from the company such as the BlackBerry 957 in April 2000, the first BlackBerry smartphone.

The BlackBerry OS platform and BES continued to increase in functionality while the incorporation of encryption and S/MIME support helped BlackBerry devices gain increased usage by governments and businesses.

Experience of the Founder: In 1979 he enrolled at the University of Waterloo in electrical engineering with an option in computer science.  In 1984 Lazaridis responded to a request for proposal from General Motors to develop a network computer control display system.  GM awarded him a contract.

He dropped out of university that year just two months before he was scheduled to graduate.  The GM contract, a small government grant and a loan from Lazaridis's parents enabled Lazaridis, Mike Barnstijn and Douglas Fregin to launch Research In Motion.

One of the company's first achievements was the development of barcode technology for film.

RIM plowed the profits from that into wireless data transmission research, eventually leading to the introduction of the BlackBerry wireless mobile device in 1999 and its better-known version in 2002. 

Where the Company Started: Waterloo, Canada.

What Problem the Company was Solving: The problems Blackberry were having was synchronizing emails and messaging so Blackberry invented BBM (Blackberry Messenger) which was unique. This issue was solved due to the creation of the BBM system and it's positive influence to the public.

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