Interesting facts of business world !!

There is a TON of noise in this thread at this point, and for good reason…

Companies and people have done crazy things over the years.

So I took it upon myself to curate the 10 most interesting facts  from previous answers and include 10 new crazy facts. By the end, you should feel like this guy…

Top 10:

1. Nokia was founded in 1865 as a single paper manufacturer and named after the Nokianvirta River in Finland.
2. Facebook is primarily blue because Mark Zuckerberg suffers from red-green color blindness.
3. Colonel Sanders started KFC at the age of 65 and his secret recipe was rejected 1,009 times before a restaurant finally added it to the menu.
4. In 1937, McDonald’s was launched by the McDonalds bros as Airdrome hot dog stand, and didn’t offer burgers or milkshakes until 1948.
5. Samsung accounts for 20% of South Korea’s GDP.
6. The red and white Coca-Cola logo is recognized by 94% of the world’s population.
7. The First YouTube Video was uploaded on April 23, 2005, featuring its co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo.
8. Amazon employees spend 2 days every year working at the customer service desk. Even Jeff Bezos does that.
9. The Ford F-150 truck has 150 million lines of code. It’s basically a computer on (very tough) wheels.
10. Ronald Wayne, the third founder of Apple, sold his shares for a mere $800 after 12 days in the company. His stake would be worth $35 billion+ today.

Fresh 10:

1. The founders of Reddit created tons of fake accounts to stimulate community and engagement in the early days.
2. The founder of Pinterest personally wrote to the company’s first 7,000 users.
3. The founders of AirBnB got their initial funding by selling their own brand of cereal. Their hit products were Cap’n McCain’s and Obama O’s.
4. Salesforce’s CEO Marc Benioff has pulled crazy stunts over the years. He hired fake protesters to disrupt their biggest rival’s conference and got every taxi at the event to give a 45-minute pitch about Salesforce.
5. Uber had a crazy offering called UberKITTENS. It gave people in seven U.S. cities the ability to buy cuddle time with real kittens in 15-minute slots. Proceeds went to animal shelters.
6. Luxottica is a mammoth in the eyewear market. It controls 80% of the major eyeglass brands including Oakley, Rayban, and many more.
7. Ikea is building a 27-acre town in East London.
8. Disney owns a ton in the content business. Its brands include Star Wars, Indiana Jones, The History Channel, A&E, ESPN, and Youtube stars like PewDiePie.
9. Walmart employs 2.3 million people around the world, which is greater than the population of New Mexico.
10. Bitcoin’s mystery creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, has ~1 million bitcoin, which pegs his (or her) net worth around $7 billion.

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