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Evan Spiegel and Snapchat
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- 0:00Mark Zuckerberg tried to buy Snapchat. A
- 0:0123-year-old told him no. [music] This is
- 0:04Evan Spiegel. November 2013, Facebook
- 0:06offers $3 billion cash. 5 months
- 0:09earlier, it was [music] worth $800
- 0:10million. He turned it down. People
- 0:12called him insane. Facebook had already
- 0:14tried to build a copy a year before the
- 0:16offer, called it [music] Poke.
- 0:17Zuckerberg wrote code for it himself. It
- 0:19flopped in weeks. They pulled it. Then
- 0:21[music] they tried again, 2016.
- 0:23Instagram launched Stories, same idea,
- 0:25same format. Instagram's own boss
- 0:27admitted it. They deserve all the
- 0:29credit. Stories worked. Instagram now
- 0:31has twice [music] Snapchat's users. So,
- 0:33who won? He kept his company. It's worth
- 0:36$9 billion, three times what he refused.
- 0:38But the format [music] he invented made
- 0:39Meta far more. He didn't lose. He got
- 0:42copied at a scale nobody survives.
- 0:44Follow Vibe Economies for more.
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