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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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    The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
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    Walt Disney World generates about 120,000 pounds of garbage every day.
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    A Kodak engineer constructed the first digital camera in 1975. They didn't want to go digital. They went bankrupt in 2012.
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    Over 4.6 million Whopper sandwiches are sold at Burger King every day!
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    Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.
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    Steve Jobs' annual salary was $1, just enough to keep company health benefits.
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    If you pronounce the names of products wrong in an Apple Store, employees are not allowed to correct you.
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