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Christopher Nolan did his first movie while having a full time job And it took him more than 50+ weeks to complete that Here's a list of all the influential people who started building during nights & weekends.
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Airbnb Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and Nathan Blecharczyk started Airbnb as a side project while they were working on other startups. They created the platform to help make ends meet during a difficult financial period. Airbnb went fulltime in 2008, & today it's a global leader in the market.
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YouTube Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim initially created YouTube in 2005 as a dating website before realizing its potential. The three founders went full-time in 2006, and Google later acquired the company in 2006 for $1.6 billion.
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Uber Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp originally created the ridesharing platform as a side project while working on StumbleUpon, a social discovery network. Uber's success led to both founders devoting their full attention to the company. With a market cap of over $60 billion.
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Dropbox Drew Houston created Dropbox as side project while studying at MIT. It started as a simple solution to the problem of forgetting USB drives. Houston realized potential of the platform and went fulltime in 2007 Dropbox is now leading cloud storage company, valued at $12B
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Buffer Joel Gascoigne started Buffer as a personal productivity tool to help manage his social media accounts. It gained popularity, and Gascoigne quit his job in 2011 to focus on the company full-time. Buffer is now a globally renowned social media management platform.
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