10 Startups Built Out of Necessity
The inspiring story of billion-dollar companies
The world wasn’t always beautiful and luxurious.
Today, if you want to learn or have a question, you simply go on Google, type the query, and boom!…you have the answer in seconds. If you want to publish your book, you simply create an Amazon account and publish the book in just a few minutes or hours. If you want to rent your house or villa, you simply go on Airbnb and list your property in just a few clicks. And if you want to start your own online e-commerce store, you simply create a Shopify account, and in just a few steps, you have a working e-commerce online store ready.
But guess what? It wasn’t always like that.
The early adopters of the internet had struggled doing things online. Not too long ago, it was impossible to self-publish a book online, to create an online store, or to store your data on the internet. Creative people experienced it, or saw an opportunity, and built a product around the problem.
Today, those products are being used by millions or billions of people worldwide. So in this story, I will show you 10 unicorn (valued at over $1 billion) tech companies that started out of necessity but now run the world.
