Friendship Is Victory, Friendship Is Success
The success story of those friends who are most successful in the field of technology
Friendship is not just about sharing the joys and sorrows of the mind; friends are needed in all cases. No great success can come without one’s friendship with others.
If we look at history, we can see that entrepreneurial friends’ contribution is the biggest reason behind the development of all the big technology companies in the world. A few friends have formed some organizations.
Today I will tell the success story of those friends who are the most successful in technology.
Let’s start the success story of those friends.
YouTube of Jawed and his two friends:-
The time is 2004. Jawed Karim, the son of a Bangladeshi researcher, is studying computer science at Stanford University. He joined PayPal, an online banking company, as a student. The job was not bad at once. However, the thirst for his innovative mind could not fulfill this job done without education. Looking for an alternative way.
How to do something new? On PayPal, he would occasionally share his thoughts with his close friends Chad Hurley and Steve Chen.
Steve is also a computer science student. On the other hand, Chad Hurley is in the design department of the University of Pennsylvania. Steve and Chen joined Jawed’s plan. Together they bet on advancing their plans. Two other friends were invited to a dinner at Steve Chen’s house in San Francisco to finalize the plan. That’s where the decision was made to create a YouTube site.
Although there are many sites online, there are no significant sites for video sharing. After examining the possibility of a video sharing site, it was decided to make such a site at the dinner that day.
On February 14, 2005, three friends registered a domain called YouTube.com. After registering the domain name, the three young engineers started designing the site. After a few months of trying, a beautiful site design came to fruition.
On April 23 of the same year, Javed Karim himself uploaded the first video titled ‘Me at Zoo.’ In May of the same year, they released a trial version. After that, the journey of YouTube started on a large scale with the investment of venture capitalists.
The YouTube site was launched in November of the same year. The site, created by three friends, was bought by search engine company Google for 175 million. Currently, the site owned by Google is being visited more than one billion times worldwide every day.
Google by Larry and Sergey Brin:-
The days of thousands of pages of searching for important information are long gone. Any desired information can now be found with the click of a mouse. And all this is possible only with the help of internet search engines.
Google is now the company that owns 80 percent of the global search engine market. On September 4, 1997, the search engine was created by two friends, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. The two became close friends while studying for a Ph.D. at Stanford University.
While working on research called ‘Bekrab,’ they planned to create a search engine. Sergey Brin’s father was a professor of mathematics, and his mother was a NASA researcher. As a child of gifted parents, he was introduced to technology at a very young age.
Brin’s friend Larry Page’s father was a computer scientist. He also got acquainted with computers at an early age. As a child, he dreamed of becoming a prominent computer scientist. To do something big. He got his friend Brin as his partner in 1995 to fulfill his dream.
In the beginning, they created a search engine with the inclusion of a few sites. At that time, the information could only be found on certain websites through this search engine. Today’s Google is the largest size of the search engine! Although Google started its activities in a rented garage, now Google has its own colossal office in Mountain View. And Google currently owns about 80 percent of the global search engines.
In addition to search engines Google webmail services Gmail, instant messenger and video chatting services Google Talk, free blogging site creation services Blogger.com, calendar and event reminder services Google Calendar, Internet browsers and full computer operating system Chrome, mapping services Google Reader offers a wide range of services, including Picasa, image management and sharing facilities, Google Buzz, AdSense advertising program, YouTube, video-sharing site YouTube, Google Docs, and Orkut.
Google made by two friends, the total income in 2009 was 2 thousand 365 million dollars.
Jerry and Phil’s Yahoo:-
The story of 1994. David Philo, a friend of two students in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in the United States. Jerry Young stays in the university computer lab all the time. Their unique attraction there was the internet.
Both of them have a strange idea. They are always addicted to searching the internet for information. But finding information from the websites of that time was not so easy. Because of this, David and Jerry had a lot of trouble. They were looking for a way out of this problem. Thoughtfully decided to create a search engine themselves! The matter was not so simple.
The address of the website had to be added to the search engine. Once upon a time, he created ‘Jerry and Davids Guide to the World Wide Web.’ In April of the same year, the name was changed to ‘Yet Another Hierarchical Official Oracle’ or Yahoo for short.
Yahoo’s development work continued in the computer terminal of a student’s home in Yang. Yahoo’s website has been visited 1 million times in just a few months of its launch. Then Yahoo’s sites were launched with a more significant investment. Then Yahoo’s revenue path started by adding banner ads.
In addition to search engines, Yahoo has launched various website-based services. Widely popular, Yahoo gradually became the emperor of the Internet world. On March 1 this year, the site entered its 15th year.
Search engines and web services created by two friends, David and Jerry, are now dominating the internet world.
Bill Gates and Paul’s Microsoft:-
Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, the world’s largest software company, had many dreams as a student. He dreamed of bringing computers to every house and even to every person.
At that time, computers could not be used for any purpose other than significant research work. At that time, dreaming of reaching the computer in every home is not a very small talk! But Bill Gates dared to dream. Because he had a close person to give him courage in that dream. The man closest to him was his friend Paul Allen.
Bill Gates first started working on a computer operating system in 1975. Bill Gates did not have the technical skills to create computer software. Even my friend Paul Allen was not good at it then. Yet they did not give up.
The two friends have always encouraged each other. Be optimistic. Allen was working on the “Altair 8800 microcomputer processor” conversion. And Bill Gates was working to develop the computer programming language ‘Basic.’
Bill Gates was a student at Harvard University at the time. He dropped out of Harvard University to pursue a career in computer software development. Microsoft co-founded Allen the same year.
After overcoming hundreds of obstacles, they could bring the computer operating system Windows to the market. The first Windows operating system was jointly developed with IBM.
Then they brought to the market one by one several software including Microsoft Office. Created by Paul Allen and Bill Gates, Microsoft is recognized as the world’s largest computer software company.
Paul and Bill Gates’ Windows operating system is currently used on 90 percent of the world’s computers!
There are many more examples:-
In this short period, friendship cannot be considered as a contribution to building a technology company. There are thousands of more examples like this. Friends contribute to almost all organizations, including Wikipedia and Facebook. Through friendship, they have found victory; they have found success.
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