Inspiring stories

A lot of inaccuracies (as it is often the case in those posts, which claim to be inspiring... but have no context or real story) : First things first: 1) Nokia did not "reject" Android: At the time, they preferred Microsoft's technologies... who were able to convince them (with cash) not to turn to Google. https://tinyurl.com/4kyzpk7s 2) In 1998, Yahoo refused to buy a PageRank system produced by Page and Brin (just a precursor to Google). There's no guarantee that it would have become Google if it had been bought at that time. In 2002, Yahoo failed to buy Google. They only offered 3 billion and Google's founders wanted 5 billion (as a reminder, Google had a turnover of $439 million in 2002). https://tinyurl.com/2mp8z2cf 3) In 2000, when Blockbuster reportedly offered Netflix $50 million, Netflix was renting video cassettes... and losing a lot of money ($36 million in sales and $58 million in losses). https://tinyurl.com/2myw2xje Furthermore, Blockbuster's CEO said (here on Linkedin) that this story is just folklore: https://tinyurl.com/23s35rx6 And as usual, we'll stop at 3 inaccuracies. Especially as these are the first 3 statements. So here's the only lesson we've learned: don't believe all the bullshit you read on Linkedin.