#internet vs #blockchain Revolution : Origins of Disruptive Companies (Part 2)
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This article is part of the Internet vs Blockchain Revolution Series. If you are interested in reading the other articles, check out this post.Looking back at the Internet revolution, the founders of a lot of disruptive companies didn’t necessarily had business in mind first but came from various backgrounds, such as hobbyists, researchers from universities, hacker channels, and ex-employees of successful companies. This list is not exhaustive, but we will go through some examples.HobbyistThe origin of Yahoo began as a hobby, in which Jerry Yang and David Filo, Ph.D. students at Stanford at the time (1994), were collecting and trading new website links during the early time of the web. After discovering Mosaic, the first web browser, the two became obsessed with the World Wide Web. At (...)