10 Super Successful Cofounders And Why Their Partnerships Worked
Bangalore: Many of the companies which achieved superstardom have hands of multiple leaders with productive relationships and common goals. Companies Apple, Twitter, Intel and many others fit the bill perfectly to say success stories of co-founders.
Stories of how these individuals found their counterparts, and how their individual talents brewed to build companies which achieved unimaginable growth incites both curiosity and inspiration at same time. Many were long-term friends, classmates, or relatives, and some didn’t get along initially, and some, inspite of individually difference worked for joint achievements.
Read on to know the 10 super successful cofounders and why their partnership worked as compiled by Business Insider.
#10 Pierre Omidyar and Jeffrey Skoll
Company: eBay
It is an American multination internet consumer-to-consumer corporation, an online auction and shopping website. It had a huge success in dot-com bubble era, and now is a multi-billion dollar company.
Year Founded: 1995
How their partnership was formed:
Pierre Morad Omidyar is a French-born Iranian American Entrepreneur and Jeffery Skoll is a Canadian engineer and entrepreneur. Omidyar and skoll were casual acquaintances when Omidyar founded eBay in September 4, 1995 . Skoll was hired by Omidyar to be company’s first president and first full time employee, and he wrote a business plan that eBay followed, growing from startup to a multinational company.
"First he told me it was a stupid idea," Omidyar wrote for Time International, “and then he agreed to come on board." The pair led the auction site to an IPO just 3 years later.
Why their partnership works:
Skoll and Omidyar share democratic values which bounded them for business and friendship. LA times once wrote, “They didn't talk about customers; they talked about 'the community’.”
The two are also philanthropists and are loyal to customers. "Shutting the community out of EBay's upcoming IPO—a practical necessity—seemed ungrateful," the LA Times reported. "So they decided that eBay would endow a charitable foundation with pre-IPO stock and share its wealth that way."
