The things that big companies do

Employees who ran away from Facebook

Early in the day, Facebook had less than 15 employees, and a guy named Steve Chen decided that the place was not for him for a couple of weeks, wanted to leave, started his own company, made the video.

Matt Cohler, who hired him, advised him not to go, "You're making a terrible mistake, you know." Facebook has a bright future! And there's already a video site out there. If you do, you'll regret it all your life! "

Chen did not listen, he walked away, and started a company called YouTube. Steve Chen is Chen.

The company that survived the casino.

When Fred Smith was at Yale in 1965, there was a study of the Economics of American Logistics to write. At that moment, most American shippers were focused on transporting big-ticket items in the space of trucks or passenger planes. Smith felt that a company with a dedicated plane to deliver small items more efficiently would fill the market. He had to wait until the last minute to finish the paper and not to detail how to run the company. So his professor gave him a "C".

But the idea took root in Smith's heart, and he really founded the company in 1971. Unfortunately, three years later, because of the sharp rise in oil prices, the company lost 1 million a month, on the verge of collapse, only 5000 dollars under the account. That's not enough money to refuel a cargo plane. Smith went around looking for money to be rejected, so a Center, with the 5000 dollars flew to Las Vegas. He spent the whole weekend playing 21 points. By the morning of Monday, the other executives of the company looked at the accounts and were stunned ... The company's capital suddenly surged to 32000 dollars, just enough to lubricate their planes and fly for a few more days.

With these days of buffering, the company finally raised enough money and began to profit after 5 years.

The company is named Fed-ex.

Don't despise peasant workers.

Ferruccio was a farmer who made tractors, he made a lot of money and became one of the richest people in Italy. He has a Ferrari and always gives him a little bit of a situation. He was also a mechanic, so he decided to fix it himself. Turning on the hood, he found that the Ferrari clutch was exactly the same as the one on his tractor. That's a Ferrari, huh? So Ferruccio Rage rushed to the Ferrari headquarters in Modena to complain. Enzo always arrogant, this time is no exception, to the Ferruccio said this is not the car, the problem in his "peasant" himself.

Ferruccio a burst of gas, and immediately vowed to build a car that could defeat Ferrari. He painstaking research, and then really reported this revenge, he made the car to the power of world-renowned, indeed gave Ferrari head-on a blow.

Do you know the name of this old Ferruccio? His surname is Lamborghini (Lamborghini).

The day of the technical mansion

In the 2003, a group of Finnish guys decided to turn their hobbies into jobs and a game company. They made one game after another, hoping that one could be popular. 6 years, they have made 51 games, not one to achieve expectations, but they have not given up.

The 52nd game is a slingshot class intelligence game, the protagonist of the game is some birds. Yes, the company is Rovio, the Angry bird production company.

Today, the company has hundreds of millions of users, 500 of thousands of employees, with Star Wars, NASA, the Chinese government and other partnerships.

The song of the Sad underwear store

A Stanford MBA graduate named Roy Raymond wanted to buy some underwear for his wife. But he was embarrassed to buy it at the department store because it made him feel like a pervert. He thought it would be a good idea to be a high-end lingerie store. So he borrowed 40,000 with the bank, borrowed 40,000 with his relatives, and opened a shop called Victoria's Secret.

In the first year, he earned 500,000. Five years later, he sold the company at a price of 4 million. Sounds a good ending, doesn't it? Indeed, only 11 years later, Victoria's secret value soared to 500 million dollars, and Roy Raymond, who operated poorly at the new company, jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge.