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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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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The upside-down ketchup bottle earned its inventor 13 million dollars.
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The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
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The Shell Oil Company began as a novelty shop in London that sold sea shells.
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Blockbuster laughed at a Netflix partnership proposal in 2000.
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