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    There's a café in France which charges €7 for a coffee to rude customers and €1.40 to people who talk politely to staff.
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    A Kodak engineer constructed the first digital camera in 1975. They didn't want to go digital. They went bankrupt in 2012.
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    Free Daily Ice Cream
    Free Daily Ice Cream
    All employees of Ben & Jerry’s get to take home 3 free pints of ice cream every single day!
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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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    The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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    Blockbuster laughed at a Netflix partnership proposal in 2000.
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    Nokia was once famous as a manufacturer of toilet paper.
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    The Shell Oil Company began as a novelty shop in London that sold sea shells.
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