The Shell Oil Company began as a novelty shop in London that sold sea shells.
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All 3 founders of Apple worked at Atari before forming Apple.
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Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was a college drop out.
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The first McDonald’s drive-thru was opened near a military base in Arizona “to serve soldiers who weren’t permitted to get out of their cars while wearing fatigues.”
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In October 1997, when Internet Explorer 4.0 was released, some Microsoft employees left a giant "From the IE team... We Love You" on Netscape's lawn.
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HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple have one thing in common – apart from the obvious that they are IT companies. They were all started in garages.
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