Failed Startup Stories

ChaCha (Search Engine), founded in 2006 by Scott A. Jones and Brad Bostic, was an American human-guided search engine that provided free, real-time answers to any question through its website or by using one of its mobile apps.

What happened to Flipagram? Due to plateauing user growth, Flipagram was sold to a Chinese company ‘Toutiao’, whose parent company ‘ByteDance’ owns TikTok.

QuizUp is a discontinued mobile game originally developed and published by Iceland-based Plain Vanilla Games and later operated by Glu Mobile. The game was a mobile trivia app similar to the game Trivial Pursuit.

StayZilla's founder was jailed in 2016 after he defaulted a client's payment. Within a few months, the company was shut down.

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