Even though Tripod eventually became one of the most popular online webpage builders in the world, that’s not how it started. Instead, Tripod began as a digital magazine. At the time, Bo was a college student, and he'd been dreaming of an online publication targeting young, college-aged audiences. It was going to be the MTV of the Web.

However, for fun, one of Bo’s developers experimented with a new concept to allow people to publish their own content online for free. They called it the "homepage builder," and it went viral literally overnight.

Within its first month, Tripod had thousands of users for its free homepage builder. Soon, it had hundreds of thousands. And, then it hit its first million shortly before being acquired. Along the way, Bo became known in the popular press as an entrepreneurial wunderkind. But was it skill and smarts that helped Bo reach the pinnacle of startup success? Or was it just dumb luck? Find out on this episode of Web Masters!

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