No. 021 · 2004 · Cambridge

Meta

Dorm-room directory. Then a pivot to legs.

3B users. Legs TBD.

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  1. 1 2004. A Harvard dorm room.
  2. 2 A campus face book goes online.
  3. 3 They spend one summer in Palo Alto. Never go back.
  4. 4 An angel writes a $500K check.
  5. 5 Yahoo offers $1B. He says no.
  6. 6 Move fast and break things.
  7. 7 Half the internet shows up.
  8. 8 2021. They rename it. The avatars have no legs.
Founders
Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes
Founded
2004, Cambridge
What they do
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads.

The story

Zuckerberg launched thefacebook.com from a Harvard dorm, then moved to Palo Alto for a summer and stayed. Peter Thiel wrote the first outside check, Yahoo's $1B offer was refused, and the company renamed itself Meta in 2021.