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    IKEA Boss
    IKEA Boss
    Despite being one of the top 10 richest men in the world, Ingvar Kamprad (founder of IKEA) lives in a small home, eats at IKEA, and uses the bus.
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    Instead of McDonald's tearing down a ~200-year-old Georgian mansion, citizens of a small NY town forced them to renovate it instead, resulting in a uniquely historic franchise location.
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    Cow is a Japanese brand of shaving foam.
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    The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker.
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    If you pronounce the names of products wrong in an Apple Store, employees are not allowed to correct you.
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    CEO takes over company worth $9m, fires management, gives power to employees, and now makes over $200m
    Ricardo Semler, a CEO in his twenties, took over a company worth $9m, fired most of the management, and gave the power to the employees. It now has a turnover of over $200m.
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    Henry Ford, father of the Automobile, is also father of the charcoal briquette.
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    Nokia was once famous as a manufacturer of toilet paper.
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