Yair goldfinger biography sampler
Four young Israeli technology pioneers — Arik Vardi, Yair Goldfinger, Sefi Vigiser and Amnon Amir — sell their messaging program, ICQ, to America Online for.!
Remember your ICQ number? The story behind how the messaging platform gave birth to startup nation
Remember your ICQ number? The story behind how the messaging platform gave birth to startup nation
Mark Zuckerberg will forever have the glory of inventing the first social network, but true geeks know that the really very first such network was invented already in 1996.
It happened in Israel and the network was named ICQ.
Those were the early days of the Internet and everyone already had modems beeping as they tried to connect with the World Wide Web, allowing access from every home and office computer to vast and previously imaginary realms of information.
Business incubators are found all over the world.
In 1994, Netscape launched its Navigator, the browser that conquered the world in just a few months. Its IPO took place in August 1995 and by the end of its first trade day, its Wall Street value was $2.9 billion. That was known as the Netscape Moment - a term describing a media enhanced IPO and the dawn of a new industry.
Anyone with some technological or business instinct immediately saw the potential.
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