CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Zynga, creator of Facebook games Farmville, Mafia Wars, and about a dozen different types of online slot machine games, paid $210M in 2012 for OMGPOP, creators of DrawSomething!, When mobile phone company Danger Inc was created in the heady days of 2000 with execs from Apple, Phillips, and WebTV, it looked like a leadership dream team.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The online bookseller didn’t turn a profit for six years — today, it’s the second publicly traded company ever to hit a $1T market cap. 2003: Long-term thinking is rooted in ownership. 2003: Long-term thinking is rooted in ownership. “The current online shopping experience is the worst it will ever be.

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CB Insights

MARCH 6, 2019

Theranos was founded in 2003 by Elizabeth Holmes, then an undergraduate student at Stanford University’s School of Engineering. To some, Silicon Valley startup culture was as much to blame for Theranos’ failure as the company’s leadership. The rise and fall of Theranos. Takeaways & lessons. The rise and fall of Pets.com.

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CB Insights

MAY 10, 2018

When BeverageCo sought to take advantage of digital, they had many isolated initiatives (such as online advertising and a corporate Facebook page) underway, but lacked traction in any of them. Bain (whose partners actually coined the phrase “$1M framework”) would create its own “insight product” in 2003 with the Net Promoter Score.

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