Unit 6 - Online Businesses By: Mikaylee Alonzo

Duolingo This website makes $700 million Luis von Ahn’s is the founder Duolingo originally did this by teaching its users a foreign language while having them translate simple phrases in documents, though the translation feature has since been removed. https://www.duolingo.com/

Google It’s reported that Google makes $110.8 Billion The founders of Google is Larry Page and Sergey Brin It started as a research project for the founders https://www.google.com/?safe=active&ssui=on

Apple Apple makes $45.7 billion per year The founders of Apple are Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne This business started by both Steve’s who set up a shop in Job’s parents’ garage. https://www.apple.com/

Amazon This makes $30 billion Jeff Bezos is who started Amazon Jeff Bezos incorporated Amazon in July 1994, with the website launching to the public a year later. https://www.amazon.com/

Instagram $35 billion Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger The founders of Instagram have resigned from the business they started eight years ago in San Francisco and built into a global phenomenon used by a billion people. https://www.instagram.com/?hl=en

Snapchat Makes $20 billion Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown Spiegel and his co-founder, Bobby Murphy, told Forbes that they met at Stanford University and created Picaboo, the first version of Snapchat, in the spring of 2011. https://www.snapchat.com/

Ebay $1.6 billion Pierre Omidyar is the founder eBay was founded in Pierre Omidyar's San Jose living room back in September 1995. It was from the start meant to be a marketplace for the sale of goods and services for individuals. https://www.ebay.com/

Twitter $2.1 billion The founder is Jack Dorsey Twitter started in 2006 when the podcasting company Odeo realized they needed to reinvent themselves and began brainstorming new creative ideas. https://twitter.com/?lang=en

Facebook They make $4 billion a year Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes The origins of Facebook have been in dispute since the very week a 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg launched the site as a Harvard sophomore on February 4, 2004. Then called "thefacebook.com," the site was an instant hit. https://www.facebook.com/

Netflix Makes $178 million per year Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph Netflix was launched on April 14, 1998, as the world's first online DVD rental store, with only 30 employees and 925 titles available https://www.netflix.com/browse