Companies That Started From an MVP and Are Now Disrupting The World!

Codescrum
5 min readJun 18, 2020

Everything starts with an idea!

What if one day you wake up with an idea that can change the world? That was perhaps the case for the creators of platforms that make your life easier today! There are ideas that seem unattainable and a little crazy or expensive, but it doesn’t always have to start big. In fact, most successful businesses that are disrupting the world today started with an MVP.

If you are not clear about what an MVP is, you can check this post.

Let’s take a look at the most famous companies that started from an MVP and are now busy disrupting the world.

Facebook: What if we connect friends and family?

The world’s most famous social network, once known as Thefacebook, started as an MVP in 2004. The initial idea was to connect the students of some American schools. Even though the idea was not new, Thefacebook implemented an innovative, extremely simple way to connect. Facebook now connects people of all ages and different kinds of cultures from all over the world.

Twitter: What if we send short SMS messages?

Odeo rescued the idea of ​​a cool SMS messaging service called ‘Twttr’ after it was suggested during a company hackathon. At the MVP stage, Twitter featured no replies, hashtags, reposts, or direct messages, only SMS messages between the users. In 2007, Twitter was renamed and developed as a stand-alone social networking platform. Today, it is a major source of news, rumours, and has become the official voice of many popular people. With a net worth of $5.1 billion (as of March 2020, according to Business Insider), it unites over 330 million active users a month.

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