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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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    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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    The first Ronald McDonald was Willard Scott in 1963.
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    All 3 founders of Apple worked at Atari before forming Apple.
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    In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
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    Starbucks uses round tables to make solo coffee drinkers feel less alone.
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    Samsung is also a full time weapons manufacturer.
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    Apple co-founder Ronald Wayne sold his 10% share in 1976 for $800. Today, it’s worth over $58 billion.
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