The following is a specific list:
1, Allen Parzer, founder of Mint.
Aaron Patzer) graduated from Duke University in 2002 and won a $50,000 prize for his Mint.com in the TechCrunch Entrepreneurship Competition in 2007. Mint.com is a financial tool and management platform to help people track their daily consumption expenditure. In September 2009, two years after its launch, Mint.com was acquired by Intuit for $654.38 million+$700 million. That year, Patzier was only 28 years old.
2.PayPal co-founder Max Levchin
1998, Max Levchin and peter thiel established a company, which was later renamed PayPal. In February, 2002, PayPal successfully went public and was later acquired by Yi Bei. As the CEO of PayPal, Ralph Qin holds 2.3% of the company's shares, worth about $34 million. In 2004, Raffaqin founded Slide, a content production and sharing platform. 20 10 in August, this platform was acquired by Google for $654.38+82 million.
3. The co-founders of my yearbook are David Cook and catherine cook.
In 2005, David Cook and catherine cook transferred to a new middle school. They are strangers, hoping to find a shortcut to make friends. MyYearbook, a social networking site, was born under this background and quickly became popular among students in the United States. Shortly after my yearbook was released, David and Catherine's brother Zaion Cook joined them and eventually made my yearbook a potential company.
20 10 In August, QuePasa, a social networking site, bought MyYearbook in the form of180,000 US dollars in cash and 82 million US dollars in stock, which was enough to pay off the170,000 US dollars raised by the Cook brothers and sisters from investors for the first time. When my yearbook was sold, Catherine and David were only 2 1 years old and 22 years old respectively.
4. jared Boris, co-founder of Blue Mountain Company.
In 1996, Jared Polis and his parents launched an electronic card business called Bluemountain. Three years later, Boris sold the Blue Mountain to Excite@Home for $780 million. As the CEO of Blue Mountain, Boris earned $654.38+$50 million, when he was only 24 years old. Today, Boris is a member of the Colorado House of Representatives.
5. Stephen Patenotre, founder of TheGlobe.
Stephen Paterno founded TheGlobe in his junior year at Cornell University. Globe is a kind of online chat, information sending and web page making service. It was successfully listed in June 1998 1 1, with a share price of $63 and a market value of $ kloc-0/billion. Patenotre was only 24 years old that year. But the next year, global stock prices plummeted, causing huge losses to investors.
6. Jeff Arnold, founder of WebMD
Jeff Arnold originally developed a heart monitoring system and sold it for $25 million. Then, he used the money to create a new company, WebMD. A year later, WebMD's valuation reached $20 billion. In a $7 billion acquisition, WebMD merged with competitor Healtheon, who was only 30 years old when he left the company in June 2000.
WebMD's share price once exceeded 100 at its peak, but then it fell to $3,5438+0 all the way in 2006. Fortune magazine called Arnold "a typical figure in the Internet bubble". Arnold later returned strongly, founded the popular science website HowStuffWorks and sold it to Discovery Communications, the parent company of Discovery Channel.
7. Mark Evan, co-founder of Red Hat
Mark Ewing originally developed a Linux publishing platform called Red Hat Linux, and his company was later acquired by Bob Young. Together, they founded Red Hat Software Company, with Evan as the CEO. Red Hat1999 was successfully listed in August. During the Internet bubble, Evan's personal assets once exceeded $900 million. After Red Hat went public, Evan began to live a leisurely life, and his spare time was very rich, and he often went rock climbing.
Marium Nafisch and Valsa Rao, co-founders of 8.Eve.com.
Marium Naficy and Varsha Rao met while working in the financial industry in new york. Both of them had the idea of starting a business at that time, so they hit it off and decided to sell women's cosmetics online. At first, investors told them it was a bad idea, but Nafisch and Rao retorted, "Don't women shop online?" The two eventually founded Eve.com, which was later sold to IdeaLab for more than $65,438 billion in cash.
9. Steve Matocq and Jared Hecht, co-founders of 9.Groupme.
Steve Matocci and Jared Hurt founded the Mobile Communication Group Information Service Group last summer. Last month, they sold GroupMe to Skype for $85 million. Although the price has not reached 1 100 million dollars, their achievements are enough to be included in our list.
10, dave morin, founder of Path.
Dave morin, a former employee of Facebook, created a social networking site called Path. Three months after Path was launched, Maureen sold it to Google for $654.38 billion. Dustin moskovitz, his good friend and co-founder of Facebook, said that it was pure pressure when talking about the reason why Maureen sold Path.