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Visual Biographies — Timelines of amazing lives for visual learners
Infographics of famous people in history, including: Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Leonardo, and Mark Zuckerberg. Find out how they got started, and create your own with the Adioma infographic maker tool, that creates infographics with icons, grids and timelines.
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@joshuapinter I hear you, Joshua. We are nearing the point with Adioma when we can update these regularly.
@annavitals You had me second guessing that I missed the first launch of Falcon Heavy, and I watch SpaceX ****VERY**** closely. :)
@joshuapinter Yes, they moved the launch. It would be cool to visualize all the planned launches vs those that actually happened. Ok, we'll update this one.
This is fantastic! When I read the first one, I expected it to end after the infographic, which was already an excellent summary, but I really appreciated the write-ups and references as well. I felt like I got the value of 15 hours of reading and synthesizing condensed into less than 1.
@ecwilson Eric, I am glad. That was the goal. And hope the visualizations help you remember the stories for a while.
This is an excellent way to show what kind of graphic timelines @adiomahq can do. Very smart.
@gabriel__lewis You can do it with a tool we built since we did this project. It builds this kind of timelines. https://adioma.com
You need a $9.95/month Blogger plan -- I think a lot of bloggers looking for interesting content would like to incorporate an occasional infographic into their blog -- like maybe 2-3/month. But at $500/year it wouldn't be worth it.
@paulhorne Paul, I've seen some bloggers who use our service do more visuals because they are so fast and easy to make. You can always try for 2 weeks free and then see if the value of what you make is greater than the cost of the service.
My only problem with this project is it's a little disingenuous as you skim over the negatives of how some of these companies come to be. For example Facebook was a stolen idea from the twins and they sued Mark winning $65 million. Instead you say he was recruited to make a dating site, drops it, and builds theFacebook in a week.
If these biographies included the whole story I think you'd have something fantastic here.
@michaeljcalkins yes, that's right: some biographies need a major update, like Zuckerberg one. Well, the fact that the idea is stollen is doubtful (who can someone still an idea from someone without executing it?). Although it's a good point: I think we should put it on a timeline somehow indicating the relevance/truthfulness of the fact in a visual way.
The challenge here is to put the most important fact on a timeline because we can't put everything - it will become too long to scroll. Or maybe come up with an interactive version of a timeline, where clicking on a point reveals more related facts, by expanding a segment of the timeline...
I guess such "life stories posters" can become a good part of many startup offices. I don't know about educational purpose, because that just a small pieces of information.... but for boosting motivation such timelines (printed) can be very useful. And great example of virus campaign for your initial tool.
Good luck!
@lisadziuba Lisa, yep, it helps us remember that building a company is not a sprint but a marathon. We have all these up on the walls at our office 
@purnimamehtaa Thank you, Fiza. Once a lot of people start living past 100, we'll have to switch to a spiral :)
Hey Anna!
I really love your website! I bumped into it last weekend while googling some research about start-up funding so its so awesome to see it pop up on PH. I loved they way you've visualized the biographies, though I also found that the notes that you included below the infographic was just as important to have as a follow-up to the images. I almost skipped them when I was done with the infographic so I think you should incorporate them as part of the infographic at the bottom as text notes, b/c I think most people would skip that over too, but it enhances the visual timeline 1000%!
Otherwise, amazing work. I think you should do Trump next and the key players of his administration. Fact checking these guys and disseminating that info, I think that's some viral stuff! Especially when you can compare his "businesses" with legit companies.
@carmensandiego Good point, that mostly happens because people share the graphic without crediting.
Need to think how to incorporate all that text into the graphic without making it look too busy.
@carmensandiego Great suggestion, Alexis, we are doing Trump right now. 70 years worth of facts to check!
Wow really loving the visual infographic style and layout! Gonna give this a read :)
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