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Yo! The dumbest app ever to raise $1M
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Well, the time has come to talk about the stupidest app in the world. Yo. An app that raised millions of dollars and all it did, was let you send Yo. No text, no images, just Yo.
I remember when I was starting my first company, these guys announced their round, and my immediate thought was- if they can raise money, anyone can.
No. But that doesn’t mean the app wasn’t stupid. I’m not the first one to poke at it. So, let’s talk about it, here’s the story of Yo.
0:00 Yo - Intro
0:46 Yo - How the stupidest app in the world was born
2:32 Yo - The dumbest app in the world enters the market
4:39 Yo - We’re on to something here
6:26 Yo - Yo evolves but is it enough?
7:51 Yo - The end is near
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