Back in 2009, there were no iPads, no Instagram, and no Lyft. Thankfully, the tech world has come a long way.
A decade ago, you couldn't order a Lyft on your phone, you couldn't scroll through Instagram, and you couldn't watch movies or answer email on an iPad.
Now, Luckey has left Oculus, but the VR company lives on at Facebook. Oculus currently offers three headsets: the Rift S, Quest, and Go. Stripe, a startup aimed at disrupting online payments, officially launched in September 2011. Now, companies from Target to the NFL use Stripe's technology to power payments in their websites and apps. Business Insider/Harry Kersh
Today, the app has over 300 million monthly active users and has moved on from basic searching and pinning: Pinterest is experimenting with shopping, machine learning and vision, and camera search both in the app and around the web. Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey launched Square in October 2010 after a friend of his couldn't make a sale because he couldn't process American Express cards.
In 2019, carriers are expanding their 5G networks, and device makers are building 5G-compatible smartphones. Founder Stewart Butterfield started working on work-chat app Slack in 2012. The first iteration of the app was a web-based massively multiplayer game, but it didn't quite work out. Fast-forward to 2013 and the Slack team knew they had a product on their hands that other companies would actually use.
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