The Wasted Potential of Early French Start-Ups
The most famous sites we use today could have been French if only …
Back in the 2000', everything remained to be done on the Internet. It was a great time to have an idea an offer new ways to navigate. A lot of people got great ideas, often the same at the same time, and a lot of these people were French.
History didn’t retain their ideas, if you find these websites today, you would probably think it is a cheap ripoff of the famous platforms, such as Youtube, Facebook, Linkedin, or even Google whilst some of them are Internet’s veterans.
These companies didn’t make the right decision to survive, choose a wrong strategy, or just didn’t have luck, but their cases are great to study to see how two ideas with similar potential can either breakthrough or perish.
1. The french YouTube
It’s hard to imagine for younger ones that twenty years ago there was no site to share and stock our videos.
In 2003 some guys try to make a website to allow people to share their videos with anybody, their names are Steve Chen, Chad…
