Kiko

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Part of Y Combinator's very first class in 2005. Built a web calendar that was genuinely ahead of its time. Then Google launched Google Calendar for free, instantly making Kiko irrelevant overnight . The founders sold the entire company on eBay for $258,100. But here's the real punchline: Justin Kan and Emmett Shear went on to create Justin.tv, which became Twitch, which sold to Amazon for $970M. Sometimes the best thing a startup can do is die quickly.

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