10 Most Valuable Startups Launched By Students

Are you dreaming of launching your own startup, but you are still a college student? Get inspired by the new infographic by EssayMama.com writing service team.

• Did you know that Bill Gates was a student at Harvard when he founded Microsoft? Paul Allen and Bill Gates were programming geniuses who understood their talent and were brave enough to take a risk. Allen convinced Gates to drop out of university so they could focus on their startup. What a smart move!
• Of course, Mark Zuckerberg also has to be a part of the list. What a coincidence: he was also a student at Harvard when he decided to help his fellow students connect through a private network. Who could predict that this idea would grow into a concept that defies the mere idea of privacy?
• Jerry Yang and David Filo, the founders of Yahoo!, were electrical engineering graduates from Stanford when they created the first version of their startup. It had a weird name: Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web. The silly name did not prevent this project to change the face of the Internet.
• Reddit was founded by two students at University of Virginia. Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian were 22 years old when they decided to bring more fun into the online world.
• Matt Mullenweg was studying at Houston University when he decided to create the Content Management System we all recognize as WordPress.
• Sergey Brin and Larry Page are two names the world will never forget. They serve as an inspiration to all young people who are wondering whether or not they should take their ideas to realization. Page and Brin were studying at Stanford when they came up with the web searching concept that introduced Internet users to more relevant results.
• Napster, a company that created a lot of trouble for the music industry and a lot of joy for music lovers, was also founded by a college student – Shawn Fanning.
• Tripod was another startup that made things cheaper. Bo Peabody and Brett Hershey, two students at William College, founded Tripod as a website that offered how-to advice for college students. It soon evolved into a project that enabled people to create websites for free.
• Dell is one of the most powerful computer technology companies in the world. It's worth billions, but Michael Dell started the business by selling custom-built computers from his dorm room at Texas University.
• Time Magazine was an epochal startup. It was launched in 1923 by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce – two graduate students at Yale.

The graphic below tells about the greatest and the most valuable businesses that were launched by students. Did you know that such popular companies as Reddit, Wordpress and Time Magazine were founded by students? Find out more from the new infographic!

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