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Google began as a research project at Stanford and was funded by over a million dollars from stanford people and family of the founders. The guy who wrote the code wasn’t part of the founding.
Idk much about apple other than the guy who designed the apple 1 wanted to give away the schematics because it came from his time at a computer club but the other guy said no.
Dude, google started in a garage. There was even a story about that lady Suzan who was the YouTube CEO and how she was part of that garage. There are videos out there from the 90s showing how it looked like. Stop making shit up! There are f-ing videos proving you wrong! It was in a garage.
google started as a Stanford research project: In their own words.
google started with a million dollars from family, friends and investors
Are you doing an elaborate bit?
So what, just because there are investors they didn't start in a garage? Anyone with a good idea and a plan can get funding from VCs after booting up the idea.
What's wrong with you people? Seriously.
What are you trying to prove exactly? That no one can start a company? Everyone can it costs pennies. No one can get funding with a good idea and hard work? Anyone can and everyone does and I've seen this with my own eyes (recently I saw two brothers get 8 million USD funding for a freaking dumb NFT project). That no one can succeed except with connections? Not true, and examples are everywhere, including big tech today. What's the mission here exactly? Because the mission I see here is encouraging people to not even try and just be lazy because "there's no point".
What am I trying to prove? I'm trying to prove that anyone working hard has a chance, but sitting your ass and being lazy will give you no chance.
You said anyone could start a successful company with nothing and used google and apple as examples, using their onetime occupancy of garages to imply that they’re examples of companies starting from nothing.
They’re not examples of people starting with nothing and the presence of garages doesn’t change that fact.
Why not use some different examples to prove your point?
Because you don't know the personal examples I know. You can look up statistics of small businesses and startups and learn how to get funding. I think the average exit from a successful startup is in the 10s of millions USD after 5 years of work. It needs hard work, and it's not easy, because no one is gonna invest in your project unless you're dedicated. BUT, it's totally possible and I've seen it tons of times. I've seen idiots get more than $15 million funding. Some fail, some succeed. In fact the majority fail, but while they're failing they learn, and VCs have interest in investing because their expected returns based on statistics are higher than their investment on average.
There's so much work to be done before calling it quits, especially for someone who doesn't know what a VC is and how it works.
May I see the personal examples you know?
Would you like a copy of my passport too? Nice try.
And just in good faith I'll tell you again: The internet is flooded with stats on startups. You don't need to dox me here to get that information.
I don’t think it would be doxing to just say the startup examples you are thinking of. Certainly they’re not so small and insignificant that a person could easily narrow down your identity simply by the businesses you’re familiar with…
BLS says 25% of new businesses fail in the first year and only half make it to five. Zippia says only 40% of startups turn a profit and 90% fail.
Those are the first two results I saw.