We visualize how 5 early internet giants — Amazon, Google, Yahoo, Netscape, and Facebook — generated revenue at lightning speed.
We often talk about the growth of startup companies today in the context of financing and valuation growth. There are 1,211 unicorns worth $3.9T that are a testament to that.
Yes — many companies got good at selling stock as opposed to software, as Twitter celeb OnlyCFO highlights below.
But in the earlier days of the internet, the breakouts did something weird.
They generated revenue.
A lot of it.
Here’s a look at 5 of the OGs of the internet and how quickly they scaled revenue in just their first 5 years:
h/t to Matt Turck and Dez Fleming of FirstMark Capital for sharing this data on Twitter here.
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