Top 10 Companies Founded By College Students

Mark Zuckerberg

As an undergraduate student at Harvard University, Mark Zuckerberg started a dating website to help college students connect with each other. Later he dropped out of Harvard and moved to Silicon Valley to turn his website into a business. Seven years later, Zuckerberg is a billionaire and his website has 1.39 billion active users.

Jerry Yang and David Filo

Three years before Google was launched as a search engine, Jerry Yang and David Filo launched Yahoo, a website meant to serve as a directory of their favorite websites. The platform has been through many ups and downs since then, but it remains one of the largest websites today.

Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian

Two students at the University of Virginia founded the social news site Reddit in 2005. After struggling to raise capital for a few months, they were funded by Y combinator, and acquired by Conde Nast publications in 2006.

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