Extraordinary Successful Startup Stories Of 17 Famous Founders All Over The World

There is a say “God helps those who help themselves” thus there comes to some successful people who do some extraordinary miracles in their startup businesses. Everybody’s life is full of ups and downs but the person who succeeds in life is the one who never quit and learn from their mistakes in order to deliver better results in each attempt. Then there are some people who give up after a couple of trials.

These successful people have one thing in common that their success came when the never stop dreaming and attempting to make their dreams come true.

These extraordinary founders have never lost their hope in life and rest has become history.
Here is the list of these successful founders who made their businesses to the heights of success!

 

1. Kevin Systrom (Instagram) – 2010

Kevin was always passionate about making an app and use to learn to code after work and one Monday created an app and on Tuesday it became the greatest photo app on app store. Today we know it as Instagram.

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2. Ritesh Agarwal (OYO Rooms) – 2011

Ritesh being a college drop out at the age of 19 decided to create an app of his own for hotels. People loved his concept and later this became one of the leading hotel booking apps which are known as ‘OYO Rooms’.

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3. Ben Silbermann (Pinterest) – 2010

Ben dropped out of medical college and started an online photo sharing website with his two friends in the year 2010 when social media started booming. His business started with 3000 subscribers and today it was worth a billion users worldwide.

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4. Baba Ram Dev (Patanjali) – 2006

Baba Ram Dev known as the yoga guru wanted to make in India project spreading Ayurveda in every aspect for which he started his venture with another guru and today their ventures strongly compete against top FMCG brands in India.

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5. Jack Dorsey (Twitter) – 2006

Jack young programmer while working in his company he wanted to know and discuss among his friends for which an idea came to his mind of ‘tweeting’. Today his company is known as Twitter with billions of turnover.

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6. Jan Koum (Whatsapp) – 2010

Jan young programmer with poor family background and getting rejected from Facebook created his own app of personal messaging with his friend. Today his app is widely used by everyone and owned by the company which rejected him earlier for the job.

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7. Bhavish Aggarwal (OLA) – 2010

Bhavish left his job at Microsoft and decided to start his own cab service company idea which came to him when he had some bad cab experience and today we all know it as OLA cabs.

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8. Varun Khaitan (UrbanClap) – 2016

Varun with his two friends left their jobs from Boston consulting group. They wanted to start a business with a motive of ‘share smile’ with 10 failure attempts on the 11th attempt they started with UrbanClap with an annual turnover of Rs 5 crore.

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9. Brian Chesky (Airbnb) -2007

Brian with his friend one day was facing difficulty to pay rent for their living room. Then the idea of online leasing or renting of lodges, holiday cottages came up to their mind which became super viral in the US and they received funding over $112 million.

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10. Jack Ma (Alibaba) – 1999

Jack received many rejections from various renowned multinational brands like McDonalds, KFC. He didn’t know how to use computers and came up with the idea of online e-commerce which is booming all over the world today.

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11. Sachin Bansal (Flipkart) – 2007

Sachin and his friends both were IIT graduates left their comfortable job life in Amazon and started their own online e-commerce with a budget of Rs1 Lakh and today their business worth $199 billion competing Amazon.

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12. Peter Vestterbacka (Angry Birds) – 2009

Peter with two friends wanted to create apps for mobile devices but with 51 failure apps attempts than when they were at the edge of quitting their 52nd idea became success which today is known as ‘Angry Bird’.

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13. Travis Kalanick (Uber) – 2009

Travis became school dropout in order to start a company from his illegal profits. Got his business ideas liked by many investors and got the funding and today his business is worth $17 billion. Today we use his company’s cab services called ‘Uber’.

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14. Sumit Jain (Common Floor) – 2007

Sumit knew his potential when he was helping his father running a business for this he quit his job and makes an app and soon it received funding of $62 million.

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15. Reidd Hoffmann (Linkedln) – 2002

Reidd got some ideas about social media platform specifically for professionals. One day started his website and asked his friends to join. Today we know his website as LinkedIn which is currently worth $1 Billion.

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16. Mark Zukerberg (Facebook) -2006

Mark college dropout created a website for people to socialize with supports of his friends and today we know it as Facebook which is worth in billions.

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17. Anirudh Gupta (Tripoto) – 2010

Anirudh and his friend loved blogging and traveling. They decided to start something related to traveling and their business today we know as ‘Tripoto’ which has worth of Rs2 crores.

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