The way Steve Jobs became a billionaire is insane: • Sold 99% of his Apple stock • Lost $50 million over 9 years • Then sold a side project to Disney for $7.4 BILLION Here's how the genius revival of a dying tech company made Jobs a billionaire before Apple did:

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Ben Horowitz: "Don't follow your passion; follow your contribution." When offering career advice, Ben Horowitz gave a counterintuitive perspective: "Don't follow your passion," he states. "You're probably thinking that's a really dumb idea because everybody who's successful, if

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Jeff Bezos's personal framework for dealing with high-stress: "Stress primarily comes from not taking action over something that you can have some control over." He explains that when he feels stressed about something, he treats it as a warning signal: "If I find that some

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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang: "I'd rather torture you into greatness than give up on you." When asked about his reluctance to fire employees, Jensen Huang explains why he prefers to help people improve rather than let them go. "When you fire somebody, you're kind of saying, 'Well, I

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Steve Jobs on how companies lose their way when product people are pushed aside by sales and marketing executives: He begins by comparing tech companies to PepsiCo, where John Sculley (who later became Apple's CEO) came from: "At most they would change their product once every

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Two decades later, Jawed's zoo video now directs viewers to: Research about microplastics in the human brain and nanoplastic health dangers. The video that launched a $550B media empire, now raises awareness about threats to our health.

Interestingly, Jawed uses his historic video to protest YouTube's changes. When YouTube removed the dislike counts in 2021, Jawed updated his video description to criticise the decision. But today in 2025, his video carries a new message:

1) Chad Hurley: $345M 2) Steve Chen: $326M 3) Jawed Karim: $64M Not bad for a 21-month journey that began with a trip to the zoo. And although Jawed hasn't posted since, his legendary video still gets updated today ↓

Enter Google. By late 2006, Google acquired YouTube for $1.65B (just 21 months after Jawed Karim uploaded "Me at the zoo.") Google's support was enough to fend off the lawsuits, and today YouTube is worth $550B. Here's how much the 3 founders walked away with from the sale:

Success brought a tidal wave of copyright lawsuits. Viacom sued for them for $1B, record labels joined the attack, and when NBC's "Lazy Sunday" SNL sketch was uploaded to YouTube, they demanded it be removed. YouTube simply didn't have the resources to fight back...

Most investors dismissed YouTube as "cute" but unproven. But two firms saw the future: • Sequoia Capital bet $8.5M • ARTIS Ventures added $3M Their survival was secured, until a legal storm started brewing...

For context: By 2006, they were burning through $1m a month. (while making close to $0 in revenue) And by 2007, YouTube was consuming more bandwidth than the ENTIRE internet was in 2000. To stay alive, they needed investors with deep pockets... and fast...