In the business world, both failures and successes abound.
Some successes have been able to exceed all the expectations of
their creators. What are the biggest success stories in
the corporate world?
In 2003, Mark Zuckerberg, then a Harvard student, was approached by the
Winklevoss brothers to develop a
university- specific online friendship network . He kept the idea and created The Facebook which was then akin to
a dating site. Easy to use, the concept was an immediate success
which spread to other American universities. The following year, the site, which
became Facebook, took the form of a real social network and began to grow
globally. In 2007, Zuckerberg became the youngest billionaire in the world.
YouTube
In 2005, three former employees of the online payment firm Paypal,
Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim seek to email a clip.
Failing to do so, they imagine a service to
easily host and share videos online. YouTube opens in February of the
same year. Simple and free, it is an immediate success. The
following year , 35 million videos were viewed every day around the
world on the platform and Google bought the company for $ 1.65 billion
.
Deezer
Jonathan Benassaya, a graduate of ESSEC business school and founder of an
online advertising agency, joined forces in 2006 with Daniel Marelhy, a
coding gifted man who left school at the age of 16. Their idea is innovative: to offer
music online for free. They founded Blogmusik which is extremely
successful among 15-25 year olds. The majors are protesting against this copyright
infringement and the site must quickly close. It reopens under the name Deezer,
after negotiations with SACEM (Society of Authors, Composers,
Music Publishers ) and financial support from Xavier Niel. The site now has a
turnover of 60 million euros.
Altrad
Born in the Syrian desert, Mohed Altrad has to wait until he is ten years old to
go to school for the first time. He obtains a scholarship to study in
France where he will obtain a doctorate in computer science. In 1985, he changed
sectors by buying a scaffolding SME which had just gone bankrupt in
Montpellier. He then diversified into the sale of concrete mixers and prospered
quickly. In twenty years, he made 60 acquisitions and made the Altrad group
the global concrete giant, with a turnover of two billion
euros. In 2015, he received the world award for entrepreneur of the year.
Vice
In 1994, the Canadian government funded a punk fanzine, Voice of Montreal,
as part of a reintegration program for young drug addicts. The three friends
behind the project, Suroosh Alvi, Gavin McInnes and Shane Smith distribute it for
free in the streets of Montreal. The magazine finds its audience and its
founders decide to free themselves from the tutelage of the State by creating a
new version, which becomes Vice. The monthly is a tremendous
international success : Vice Media is today the leader of the underground press and
has developed through a music label and a production company.
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