Blockbuster laughed at a Netflix partnership proposal in 2000.
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Dell Computers was started by a 19 year old with only $1,000.
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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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Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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The Shell Oil Company began as a novelty shop in London that sold sea shells.
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The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
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In 1907, Kellogg’s launched a campaign called "Wink Day" to promote Cornflakes. Women were encouraged to “wink at your grocer and see what you get” (and what they got was a free box of cereal!)
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