Kevin Systrom – Founder and CEO, Instagram George January 3, 2014 Billion Dollar Apps, Founder Interviews, Insights, Instagram, Photography Kevin Rose interviews the CEO of Instagram. Very candid and insightful interview....
Flipboard raises a $100 million round at an $800 million valuation George December 22, 2013 Flipboard Flipboard is inching ever closer to the billion-dollar club. Today they confirmed they had raised an additional $50 million, bringing their Series C financing total to $100 million. This closes the funding...
Evan Spiegal – CEO of Snapchat (and how he plans to make money) George October 27, 2013 Billion Dollar Apps, Communications, Founder Interviews, Insights, Snapchat Evan talks about how Snapchat will make money at Techcrunch Disrupt, San Francisco...
Nice: Supercell now worth $3.1 billion thanks to Softbank investment George October 21, 2013 Supercell Today SoftBank paid $1.5 billion for a 51% stake in Finnish mobile games maker Supercell, the maker of 'Clash of Clans' and 'Hay Day'. Not bad for a company with 100 people and just two active...
Uber breaks into the Billion Dollar Club with Style George August 23, 2013 Uber It seems that Travis Kalancik has really been busy. His uber-fast growing transportation app has raised $258 million from private equity giant TPG and Google Ventures. According to a Delaware filing the...
The Mobile Money Shot George June 25, 2013 Audience Building, Billion Dollar Apps, Facebook, Instagram I have to recommend this great piece by Kara Swisher in Vanity Fair. Unlike the tech magazines and blogs, VF is able to really dig deep into the story behind the world's first Billion Dollar App. The sale of...
Waze Millionaires – How Much Did They All Make? George June 23, 2013 Waze You don't often find out how much founders make from the sale of their apps - so it's all the more fun when you do the digging and find out. Waze has been called the most lucrative technology startup and app...
Waze breaks into the Billion Dollar App Club George June 11, 2013 Audience Building, Google, Waze 1 Comment Some journeys definitely do take a long time - Waze - the Israeli social-mapping app took a good 7 years to make it there. Today Google announced that they would be acquiring the company for $1.1 billion. The...
