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Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) is one of the largest social media companies in the world, with nearly 3.3 billion daily active users using its apps and services. Meta's rise has made its co-founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, one of the richest people in the world. But how did Meta grow to be so...

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) may have become the world's largest social network, but that wasn't the company that concerned LinkedIn (NASDAQ: LNKD) in 2004. "I had this list of 27 vicious competitors that people just don't remember anymore," Konstantin Guericke, co-founder of LinkedIn, told Benzinga...