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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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    BackRub
    BackRub
    Google was originally called "BackRub".
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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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    McDonald's serves 75 hamburgers every second, according to the company’s Operations and Training Manual.
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    Lenovo CEO Redistributed His $3M Bonus to 10,000 Employees. Twice.
    As a reward for record profits, the CEO of Lenovo, Yang Yuanqing, received a $3 million bonus, which he redistributed to about 10,000 of Lenovo's employees. He did the same again in 2013.
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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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    Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
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