Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room in February 2004 — he co-founded it with roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.Jack Dorsey co-founded Twitter in 2006 and sent its first tweet — 'just setting up my twttr' — though Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass were also co-founders.Kevin Systrom co-founded Instagram with Mike Krieger in 2010 — Facebook acquired it for $1 billion just 18 months after launch.YouTube was founded by three former PayPal employees in a garage in Menlo Park, California in February 2005. Google acquired it for $1.65 billion in 2006.Reid Hoffman co-founded LinkedIn in his living room in 2002 — Microsoft acquired it for $26.2 billion in 2016.Evan Spiegel co-founded Snapchat at Stanford University in 2011 — he famously turned down a $3 billion acquisition offer from Facebook.Zhang Yiming founded ByteDance in Beijing in 2012 and launched TikTok internationally in 2018 — he stepped down as CEO in 2021.Jan Koum and Brian Acton — both former Yahoo employees — founded WhatsApp in 2009. Facebook acquired it for $19 billion in 2014.Ben Silbermann co-founded Pinterest with Evan Sharp and Paul Sciarra in 2009 — famously rejected by investors who called it 'a cute little side project.'Pavel Durov co-founded Telegram with his brother Nikolai in 2013 — he had previously founded Russia's largest social network VK before leaving Russia.Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian founded Reddit in 2005 while at the University of Virginia — acquired by Condé Nast in 2006.Daniel Ek co-founded Spotify with Martin Lorentzon in Stockholm, Sweden in 2006 — launched in 2008 as a response to rampant music piracy.Jason Citron co-founded Discord in 2015 — originally built as a communication tool for his gaming company, it pivoted to become a standalone platform.Eric Yuan founded Zoom in San Jose, California in 2011 — a former Cisco WebEx executive who was told his idea for a better video tool was not worth pursuing.Justin Kan and Emmett Shear co-founded Twitch in 2011 as a spin-off of Justin.tv — Amazon acquired it for approximately $970 million in 2014.David Karp launched Tumblr in 2007 at just 20 years old — Yahoo acquired it in 2013 for $1.1 billion, then sold it for just $3 million in 2019.WeChat was created by Allen Zhang at Tencent in 2011 — often called 'the app for everything' in China, combining messaging, social media, and payments.Paul Davison and Rohan Seth founded Clubhouse in 2020 — the audio-only app exploded during COVID-19 lockdowns before declining sharply as restrictions lifted.Dom Hofmann, Rus Yusupov, and Colin Kroll founded Vine in 2012 — Twitter acquired it before launch, then shut it down in 2017, widely considered one of tech's biggest mistakes.Sean Rad and Justin Mateen co-founded Tinder at a startup incubator in West Hollywood in 2012 — the swipe-right/swipe-left interface revolutionized online dating.Whitney Wolfe Herd co-founded Bumble in 2014 after leaving Tinder — she became the world's youngest female self-made billionaire at 31.Moxie Marlinspike co-founded Signal in 2013 — WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton later donated $50 million to the Signal Foundation after leaving Facebook.Eugen Rochko launched Mastodon in 2016 — the open-source, decentralized alternative gained massive attention after Elon Musk acquired Twitter in 2022.Alexis Barreyat co-founded BeReal in France in 2020 — the app prompts users to share an unfiltered photo at a random time each day, offering a raw alternative to curated social media.Weibo ('microblog' in Chinese) was launched by Sina Corporation in 2009 — China's largest microblogging platform with over 580 million monthly active users.Lorenz Bogaert and Toon Coppens founded Twoo in Ghent, Belgium in 2011 — the social discovery network grew to over 180 million users across more than 200 countries.Nirav Tolia co-founded Nextdoor in 2008 — the neighborhood social network grew to cover most US neighborhoods before expanding globally.Jonathan Abrams founded Friendster in 2002 — one of the first major social networks, it famously turned down a $30 million Google acquisition offer in 2003 before eventually collapsing.'Tom' (Tom Anderson) became everyone's default friend on Myspace, co-founded with Chris DeWolfe in 2003 — News Corp bought it for $580 million then sold it for just $35 million in 2011.Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai founded Foursquare in New York City in 2009 — the location check-in platform pioneered gamification in social apps.Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever — both former Facebook engineers — founded Quora in 2009. D'Angelo had been Facebook's CTO before departing.Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons founded Yelp in San Francisco in 2004 — both were former PayPal engineers who received seed funding from PayPal co-founder Max Levchin.Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake launched Flickr in 2004 — acquired by Yahoo in 2005, it is widely considered a pioneering influence on Instagram.Stewart Butterfield co-founded Slack in 2013 — it began as an internal communication tool for his failed video game company Glitch. Salesforce acquired Slack for $27.7 billion in 2021.Kevin Rose co-founded Digg in 2004 — once valued at over $160 million, it declined a $188 million Google offer before selling for under $1 million in 2012.Dave Morin — a former Facebook executive — co-founded Path in 2010 as a private social network limited to 150 friends. Despite early buzz, it shut down in 2018.Kayvon Beykpour and Joe Bernstein founded Periscope in 2014 — Twitter acquired it before launch. Despite pioneering live streaming, it was shut down in 2021.Ben Rubin co-founded Houseparty with Sima Sistani in 2016 — the group video chat app surged during COVID-19 before Epic Games acquired and shut it down in 2021.Vladimir Novakovski co-founded Lunchclub in San Francisco in 2017 — the AI-powered professional networking app matches users for one-on-one meetings, gaining popularity during remote work.John Matze and Jared Thomson founded Parler in 2018 — the free-speech social media platform was briefly deplatformed from Apple, Google, and Amazon in January 2021 following the US Capitol riots.You scored 0 out of 40You scored 1 out of 40You scored 2 out of 40You scored 3 out of 40You scored 4 out of 40You scored 5 out of 40You scored 6 out of 40You scored 7 out of 40You scored 8 out of 40You scored 9 out of 40You scored 10 out of 40You scored 11 out of 40You scored 12 out of 40You scored 13 out of 40You scored 14 out of 40You scored 15 out of 40You scored 16 out of 40You scored 17 out of 40You scored 18 out of 40You scored 19 out of 40You scored 20 out of 40You scored 21 out of 40You scored 22 out of 40You scored 23 out of 40You scored 24 out of 40You scored 25 out of 40You scored 26 out of 40You scored 27 out of 40You scored 28 out of 40You scored 29 out of 40You scored 30 out of 40You scored 31 out of 40You scored 32 out of 40You scored 33 out of 40You scored 34 out of 40You scored 35 out of 40You scored 36 out of 40You scored 37 out of 40You scored 38 out of 40You scored 39 out of 40You scored 40 out of 40
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You use them every day — scrolling, liking, sharing, posting. But do you actually know who built the apps that run your social life? Some founders are household names. Others are billionaires you've never heard of. A few stories will genuinely surprise you — including who got pushed out, who sold too early, and who built an empire from a college dorm room. This quiz covers 40 social media platforms and the people who created them. Getting half right would be impressive. Getting them all? That would be extraordinary.
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You use them every day — scrolling, liking, sharing, posting. But do you actually know who built the apps that run your social life? Some founders are household names. Others are billionaires you've never heard of. A few stories will genuinely surprise you — including who got pushed out, who sold too early, and who built an empire from a college dorm room. This quiz covers 40 social media platforms and the people who created them. Getting half right would be impressive. Getting them all? That would be extraordinary.