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Discover how tech visionaries like Musk and Chesky needed just one breakthrough to build billion-dollar empires. Forbes editor Randall Lane reveals the counterintuitive strategies behind 16 revolutionary startups that transformed industries overnight. What's their secret? You only have to be right once.
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The Billion-Dollar Disruptors: How Digital Natives Rewrote the Rules
In a corner of a crowded media party, Sean Parker-the tech entrepreneur vilified in The Social Network-surprised me with his gratitude for Forbes' nuanced profile. This encounter happened shortly before Steve Jobs' death, marking a symbolic transition from tech's old guard to a new generation of digital swashbucklers who would transform industries during the Great Recession. Unlike their predecessors, these entrepreneurs can't remember life without the internet. They've created unprecedented wealth-Zuckerberg worth $30 billion by thirty, with nearly a dozen self-made American billionaires under presidential age. Their youth has become an advantage, with "digital natives" running companies without adult supervision. What truly sets them apart? Their individualism, embrace of risk, and view of failure as acceptable. As Ashton Kutcher, an investor in many of these ventures, puts it: "The American outlook that you only have to be right once explains why internet innovations spring predominantly from this country."
Sean Parker: The Visionary Who Hears Dog Whistles
Drew Houston: From Hot Pockets to Cloud Billions
Elon Musk: The Real-Life Iron Man
Instagram: The $1 Billion Photo Revolution
Daniel Ek: The Swedish Hacker Who Saved Music
The Billion-Dollar Lesson: One Right Decision Changes Everything
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