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    Dell Computers was started by a 19 year old with only $1,000.
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    Snoop Dogg makes $30,000 per week selling digital stickers of his face, joints, and more.
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    Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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    A full-time cashier at Costco makes about $49,000 annually. The average wage at Costco is nearly 20 dollars an hour and 89% of Costco employees are eligible for benefits.
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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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    In 2013, AOL declared that they still made over $500 million a year through dial-up internet subscriptions.
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    Dell's first advertisement was made on the back of a pizza box.
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    Blockbuster laughed at a Netflix partnership proposal in 2000.
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