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Steven Loeb
- April 3, 2018
When Slack was young: the early years
Slack started as an in-house communication tool for Tiny Speck, developer of multiplayer game Glitch
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- March 6, 2018
When Box was young: the early years
It took Box nearly three years to reach one million registered users
- February 5, 2018
When PayPal was young: the early years
PayPal was sold to eBay for $1.5 billion only five months after it went public in 2002
- January 2, 2018
When Venmo was young: the early years
Venmo was acquired only months after launching publicly, and is now owned by PayPal
- December 11, 2017
When Tesla was young: the early years
Tesla was founded in early 2003 and unveiled its first car, the Tesla Roadster, in 2006
- November 6, 2017
When Spotify was young: the early years
Spotify launched two and a half years after it was founded in 2006, and had 1M users in five months
- October 3, 2017
When Salesforce was young: the early years
Salesforce had $5.4M two years after launch, $22.4M after three years and $51M after four years
- September 5, 2017
When Blue Apron was young: the early years
Blue Apron started out as Petridish, a crowdfunding site for scientific research
- August 1, 2017
When WhatsApp was young: the early years
WhatsApp started out allowing users to put statuses on their phone, before becoming a messaging app
- June 13, 2017
When Wikipedia was young: the early years
Wikipedia, launched in 2001, was an offshoot of online encyclopedia Nupedia
- May 16, 2017
When Jet.com was young: the early years
The timeline of events that led to Walmart buying Jet.com to go after Amazon
- April 4, 2017
When Pandora was young: the early years
The company started out as Savage Beast Technologies, before pivoting to Pandora in 2005
- March 21, 2017
When Omada Health was young: the early years
One of the pioneers in digital therapeutics, Omada has largely stayed true to its vision
- February 21, 2017
When Fitbit was young: the early years
Fitbit launched its first product in 2009, almost two and half years after it was founded
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