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Do you have an idea worth billions of dollars? They do. The almost fairy-tale stories of young tech magnates provide inspiration for the average mortal. In 2007, twenty-one-year-old David Karp created a simple blogging system and named it Tumblr. It just came to him. Five years later, Tumblr became one of the ten most visited websites in the world, used by 170 million people. In 2013, it was bought by the giant company Yahoo for more than a billion dollars. The young man, who didn't even finish high school, ended up with about 5.2 billion crowns. And he is far from the only one to achieve something similar. In the global tech metropolis of Silicon Valley, a new generation of billionaires has emerged, differing in many ways from their predecessors. They are unusually young and are conquering the world at an incredible speed. They don't wait to gain experience, nor do they need a large initial capital. Many of them haven't even graduated from school, yet they already own the most attractive companies in the world. And often, all it took was a single idea. History has never seen anything like it – a company doesn't have to generate any profit on its own, yet it has a fairy-tale value. Editors of the American version of Forbes, led by...
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Author: Lane Randall
Language: Czech
Publication date: March 1, 2015
Manufacturer: Nakladatelství 65. pole - Mgr. Tomáš Brandejs
Genres: Books, Fiction, Biographies and autobiographies
Type: Hardcover books
Pages: 240
ISBN/EAN: 9788087506547

