Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was a college drop out.
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The co-founder and CEO of SnapChat, 23-year-old Evan Spiegel, turned down an offer of $3 billion from Facebook and then a $4 billion bid from Google.
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90% of all restaurants fail during their first year of operation.
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Over 4.6 million Whopper sandwiches are sold at Burger King every day!
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Blockbuster laughed at a Netflix partnership proposal in 2000.
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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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Instead of McDonald's tearing down a ~200-year-old Georgian mansion, citizens of a small NY town forced them to renovate it instead, resulting in a uniquely historic franchise location.
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