Founder: Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim
Annual Revenue: $1.7 billion
Before YouTube, we had no control over what we could watch.
Youtube is truly the tube that belongs to the people, enabling us to find the weirdest, funniest, the most horrifying, or the most humane videos that give us a real snapshot into the breadth of human culture.
Founders: Mark Zuckerberg. Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes
Annual Revenue: $5.1 billion
The tale of Facebook is, on the other hand, completely different. It too has had a seemingly bizarre effect on our language: “to friend,” “to like,” or “wall” have all assumed a place in our colloquial talk. But its story is a little different.
It was once cool to use Facebook. Then it became uncool, once everyone had it. You began to hear of people disabling their account for Lent or some other misguided ascetic reasons.
Years later, it has simply become an extension of your identity, for better or worse. It’s assumed that when you meet someone, you friend them and look through their profiles and pictures.
It’s changed entirely the distinction between our private and public lives.
Founders: Larry Page, Sergey Brin
Annual Revenue: $50.2 billion
The best example of a website becoming “ubiquitous” is perhaps the strange case of Google.
The word “google,” which simply means to look something up on Google, was added to the Oxford English Dictionary.
For years, Google has been the standard of search engines. Using any other search engine was a telling sign that you belong to a previous generation of obsolescence.
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How do you get included in the top money making websites? You become ubiquitous.
It is no small wonder that their founders are often shameless eccentrics who have no small ambition to engage with the way people operate, to make lifestyles revolve around their websites.
The goal of these websites has been nothing less than to change the world itself and their strategy involves attuning themselves to people’s needs and desires in order to find and fill a permanent niche.
Here is an interesting list of the top money making websites.
Now it would be to obvious to list these sites only based on revenue numbers, I went a little further and based my listing on their growth speed and prospective value.
Remember this is a list created based on my personal opinion. I´ll do a second part explaining my view on each of these sites.
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