10.8% admitted to Stanford REA

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"They released the app early, five weeks into the course. That timing — just before Apple’s 2010 Worldwide Developer’s Conference — could not have been more fortunate. </p>

<p>Mr. Kothari and Mr. Gupta were streaming the event on their computers — they had been denied entrance at the door — when Steven P. Jobs, then chief executive of Apple, praised Pulse as “wonderful” in his keynote speech. Instantaneously, Pulse became the top app downloaded for the iPhone. </p>

<p>In April, LinkedIn acquired the company from Mr. Kothari and Mr. Gupta for $90 million.
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<p>A class project ending up being worth $90 Million is kind of great and ridiculous at the same time!</p>