Top 5 of the best entrepreneurial success stories
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Top 5 of the best entrepreneurial success stories
In the business world, failures and successes abound. Some success stories have been able to exceed all the expectations of their creators. What are the biggest success stories in the business world
In 2003, Mark Zuckerberg, then a student at Harvard, was approached by the Winklevoss brothers to develop an online friendship network specific to the university. He keeps the idea and creates The Facebook which is then akin to a dating site. Easy to use, the concept was an immediate success that spread to other American universities. The following year, the site, which became Facebook, took the form of a real social network and began a global boom. In 2007, Zuckerberg became the world's youngest billionaire
YouTube
YouTube In 2005, three former employees of the online payment firm Paypal, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim tried to send a benchmarke-post clip. Failing to achieve this, they imagine an indulgence to easily host and share videos online. YouTube opens in February of the same year. raw and free, it met with immediate success. The following year, 35 million videos are watched every day worldwide on the platform and Google buys the company for 65 billion dollars
Deezer
Jonathan Benassaya, a graduate of the ESSEC business school and founder of an online advertising agency, joined forces in 2006 with Daniel Marelhy, a gifted coding expert who left school at 16. Their idea is innovative: to offer music online for free. They founded Blogmusik, which is hugely successful among 15-25 year olds. The majors are protesting this copyright infringement and the site must quickly close. It reopens under the name of Deezer, after negotiations with the SACEM (Society of Authors, Composers, Music Publishers) and the financial support of Xavier Niel. The site now has a turnover of 60 million euros
Altrad
Born in the Syrian desert, Mohed Altrad had to wait until he was ten to go to school for the first time. He obtains a scholarship to study in France where he will obtain a doctorate in computer science. In 1985, he changed sectors by buying a scaffolding SME which had just gone bankrupt in Montpellier. He then diversified into the sale of cement mixers and quickly prospered. In twenty years, he made 60 acquisitions and made the Altrad group the world giant in concrete, with a turnover of two billion euros. In 2015, he received the global entrepreneur of the year award
