There were other investors like Don Valentine, from Sequoia Capital who weren’t convinced with Steve Jobs and lost this jackpot. Valentine later changed his mind and requested Mark Markkula who was then Apple’s marketing lead, if he could get a portion of the company to invest in.

Intuit

It was initially very difficult for Scott David Cook to procure funding, he knocked the doors of many investors and VC’s requesting for financial assistance but nobody bothered to take up the responsibility of funding this organization. It was his friends who helped him finally and he managed to spare $225,000. Today, this company boasts a whopping net worth of $1.1 billion.

eBay

This very famous ecommerce company started its operation in 1995 when the founder Pierre Omidyar wrote the code for the web platform, for what he mockingly calls an ‘experiment’. When he approached investors for financial assistance most of them mocked at him and Bessemer Venture Partner’s David Cowan      thought “Stamps? Coins? Comic books? You’ve got to be kidding,” before passing on the ecommerce giant.