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GoogleWe are building the world's 20th search engine at a time when most of the others have been abandoned as commoditized money-losers. We'll strip out all of the ad-supported news and portal features so you won't be distracted from using the free search stuff.
AmazonWe'll sell books online, even though users are still scared to use credit cards on the web. Their shipping costs will eat up any money they save. They'll do it for the convenience, even though they have to wait a week for the book
FacebookThe world needs yet another Myspace or Friendster, except several years late. We'll only open it up to a few thousand overworked, anti-social Ivy Leaguers. Everyone else will then join since Harvard students are so cool.
TwitterIt is like email, SMS or RSS. Except it does a lot less. It will be used mostly by geeks at first, followed by Britney Spears and Charlie Sheen.
InstagramFilters! That's right, we got filters!
PayPalPeople will use their insecure AOL and Yahoo email addresses to pay each other real money, backed by a non-bank with a cute name run by 20-somethings.
LinkedInHow about a professional social network, aimed at busy 30- and 40-somethings. They will use it once every 5 years when they go job searching.
MintGive us all of your bank, brokerage, and credit card information. We'll give it back to you with nice fonts. To make you feel richer, we'll make them green.
DropboxWe are going to build a file sharing and syncing solution when the market has a dozen of them that no one uses, supported by big companies like Microsoft. It will only do one thing well, and you'll have to move all of your content to use it.
iOSA brand new operating system that doesn't run a single one of the millions of applications that have been developed for Mac OS, Windows, or Linux. Only Apple can build apps for it. It won't have cut and paste.
GitHubSoftware engineers will pay monthly fees for the rest of their lives in order to create free software out of other free software!
FirefoxWe are going to build a better web browser, even though 90 percent of the world's computers already have a free one built in. One guy will do most of the work.
