5 startups started by students which are now giants

The power of young minds can never be challenged. From generating the tricks to get out of tricky situations to creating a robot for the next assignment, they are the ingenious vigour of life. Do you know that the now topmost companies were once started by students? Yes, when most of us were busy in cursing our hectic college life, they were changing the world with their innovations. If we look into the last two decades figure of the market, we would come across the outcome that digital commerce is taking over the marketplace, and the remarkable thing is most of these entrepreneurs were students at the time they launched companies. 

They too were common people like us, rose within the confinements of ‘hectic life’ and ‘empty pocket’, but the passion for giving this world something and understanding of the market set them apart. These entrepreneurs are among the most influential people alive, let’s have a look at some outstanding startups started by students.

Google

Yes, Google was launched by students, isn’t it astonishing? Seventeen years ago, Google was just a research project of two Ph.D. students at Stanford University - Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Today, none of us can imagine an internet life without Google.

 Google Founders - Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Facebook

On February 4, 2004, Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard University student, along with his four roommates and fellow students, launched the biggest social networking platform, Facebook. The start of the Facebook was supposed to be just “Harvard thing”, but Zuckerberg’s decision of spreading it to other schools and colleges turned out to be a game changer. There are many social networking sites which are doing great, but Facebook still stands proudly on number 1.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckernerg

Microsoft

Microsoft is the creation of the two most influential people alive, Bill Gates and Paul Allen. The life of Bill Gates was rather interesting. Do you know that he started hacking at the age of 13? The education vision of Bill Gates was very obscure. In the start, he wanted to become a lawyer like his father, but one day when he read about Altair in a computer magazine, he called them and lied that he had a computer language for it. The company agreed and Bill Gates wrote BASIC computer language for Altair and sold it to open Microsoft, and by the age of 39, Bill Gates became the richest man on Earth.

 Microsoft Founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen

Yahoo

In 1994, Jerry Yang and David Filo, the two electrical engineering graduate student at Stanford University, innovated a website named—Jerry and David’s guide to the World Wide Web. Yes, this used to be the former name of Yahoo, a most popular web search engine, news portal, and many other things.

 Yahoo Founders Jerry Yang and David Filo

Wordpress

We all are familiar with Wordpress, and most of us have a running blog on it too. Do you know that Wordpress was founded by a then 19 years old student of philosophy and political science? Matt Mullenweg was studying in University of Houston when he announced to launch a blogging software on the b2/cafelog (where he used to blog his pictures) which could justify his needs and web standards. Mikelittle, the co-founder of Wordpress soon contacted him, and later they both were joined by Michel Valdrighi, the original developer of b2. 

Wordpress founders

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