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  • Airbnb

    Airbnb is a community marketplace of individuals listing, exploring, and booking property around the world.

    • Fortune

      Airbnb helps cities prep for disasters

    • TechCrunch

      It’s Business Time: Airbnb Targets Work Travelers With Concur Partnership

    • Fast Company

      Airbnb Unveils Major Rebranding Effort That Paves The Way For Sharing More Than Homes

    • TechCrunch

      Airbnb Now Waiving Charges For Those Displaced By The Floods In Southeast Europe

    • TechCrunch

      Airbnb Experiments With ‘Experiences,’ Offering Everything From Bike Tours To Home-Cooked Meals

    • Wired

      How Airbnb and Lyft Finally Got Americans to Trust Each Other

    Founders

    Brian Chesky
    Nathan Blecharcyk
    Joe Gebbia

    Profiles

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    Crunchbase

  • Spotify

    Spotify provides users with a free, legal music library of more than 20 million tracks.

    • TechCrunch

      Spotify Pushes Popular Playlists With A New Tastemaker Tab

    • Fast Company

      How Spotify's Music-Obsessed Culture Keeps Employees Hooked

    • New York Times

      Spotify Hits 10 Million Subscribers, A Milestone

    • The Verge

      Spotify's Biggest Redesign Ever Brings Long-Awaited Collection View

    • Forbes

      Spotify's Daniel Ek: The Most Important Man In Music

    Founders

    Daniel Ek
    Martin Lorentzon

    Profiles

    Website
    Crunchbase

  • Facebook

    Facebook is the largest social network in the world.

    • Fast Company

      Facebook's Plan To Own Your Phone

    • Wired

      Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s Future, From Virtual Reality to Anonymity

    • New York Times

      Can Facebook Innovate? A Conversation With Mark Zuckerberg

    • CNN

      Mark Zuckerberg's Big Idea: The 'Next 5 Billion' People

    Founders

    Mark Zuckerberg

    Profiles

    Website
    Crunchbase

  • ResearchGate

    ResearchGate leverages the world’s largest professional network of researches to make science more collaborative, interdisciplinary, and efficient.

    • Vice Motherboard

      Do Science Journals Need An Alternative To Peer Review?

    • GigaOm

      Academic Social Network ResearchGate Aids Debunking Of Stem Cell Study

    • TechCrunch

      The Collaborative Power of Berlin-Based ResearchGate

    • VentureBeat

      Bill Gates Joins $35M Round In ResearchGate To Make Science More Open

    Founders

    Dr. Ijad Madisch

  • Wish

    Wish is a platform for discovering, collecting, and sharing products with friends.

    • Bloomberg TV

      Founders Fund Wish: Reinventing e-Commerce

    • Wall Street Journal

      Shopping App Wish Lands $50 Million Financing Round

    • TechCrunch

      Shopping App Wish Raises $50 Million

    Founders

    Peter Szulczewski
    Danny Zhang

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