facts verse
presents great successful businesses
created by
Revenge Virgin airways Richard Branson
likely never planned to start his own
Airline business when he was younger
however 30 years ago he became so
infuriated with American Airlines he
decided to make some changes he was in
Puerto Rico and he was booked on a
flight to the British Virgin Islands
when there weren't enough passengers to
fill the plane the airline canceled the
flight according to Branson he had a
woman waiting for him therefore he
needed to get home quickly he decided to
hire a plane and he borrowed a
Blackboard and he wrote Virgin Airlines
on it he rounded up all of the
passengers who had been bumped charged
them $39 to fly one way to the British
Virgin Islands and that is how he filled
his first plane when he got
he searched for Boeing 747s for sale and
his airline was born
FedEx in
1965 FedEx founder Frederick Smith wrote
a term paper about the shipping industry
and its flaws he invented an industry on
paper and laid out all of the logistics
he proposed a system of shipping
important items to people without
relying on passenger route systems after
serving in the military in August 1971
Smith got a job with Arkansas Aviation
Sales located in Little Rock while
working there he saw how difficult it
was to get packages shipped to him in a
day or two after inheriting $4 million
from his father he used the information
from his term paper and created FedEx
finally he was able to get a package in
one or two days
Netflix Netflix is one of the 10 great
successful businesses created by Revenge
the company was created by Mark Randolph
and Reed Hastings originally the idea
for Netflix was to sell various items
over the Internet while the men were
planning their business Reed Hastings
rented Apollo 13 in
1997 he forgot to return it and he ended
up having to pay a $40 late fee this
made him so angry that he decided to
rent movies over the internet rather
than sell products soon Netflix was born
which drove video stores around the
world out of business Netflix is
currently available in 190 countries and
users can either get DVDs in the mail or
they can live stream movies and
television shows Reed made sure that
Netflix would never have a late charge
and users could keep the DVDs as long as
they liked
Spotify Spotify was developed by Daniel
e and Martin lawrenson they were fed up
with with standing in line to get their
favorite CDs so they signed up with
Napster when they started to charge for
their services and eventually shut down
the two men started paying $2 a song
from Apple iTunes which they resented
they decided to create a free music
service that would last after working in
a tiny apartment which only contained a
mattress Spotify was born the Gap the
Gap was founded by a man named Don old
Fisher and his wife Doris in
1969 the couple hated shopping for jeans
because they could never find any that
fit them just right to solve their
problem they decided to open up their
own store that carried jeans in plenty
of sizes and styles so that everyone
could find the right size jeans they
raised
$63,000 to open their first store after
the second year they had reached $2
million in sales they decided Ed to
Branch out and open additional stores
today the Gap is one of the largest
clothing stores in the world
Intel the three founders of Intel Robert
Noy Gordon Moore and Arthur rock all
decided to leave Fairchild the company
that they worked for because their
company would not let them create or
invent instead they left them doing
administrative duties in the end they
founded Intel where they invented the
first first
microprocessor if their child had only
allowed them to invent rather than
handle administrative tasks they would
have become a household name instead it
is Intel Liverpool Football
Club the Liverpool Football Club was
founded in
1892 a man named Tom Watson bought a
stadium for Everton football club and at
the last minute Everton pulled out
Watson was left with a stadium and no
team he decided to form his own football
club which went on to win two League
championships today they are the most
successful league in England
Activision Activision is a video game
publisher before Activision thirdparty
developers did not exist the founders of
Activision Larry Kaplan Alan Miller and
David Crane and Bob Whitehead were
working for Atari they met with the CEO
to demand that the company treat the
developers the way the music business
treated artists by paying them royalties
on anything with their name on it when
Atari refused the men decided to create
Activision where they could get credit
and payment for their hard work
Dyson Dyson is a vacuum company created
by James Dyson after he bought a Hoover
vacuum cleaner he found that it got
clogged very quickly and it didn't
provide enough suction the only time he
could restore proper suction was to keep
putting in a fresh bag he decided that
he would develop a better vacuum cleaner
with more suction after visiting a local
Sawmill he saw an industrial cyclone and
he found the solution to his suction
problem and Dyson was born Dyson was
born out of Hoover's shortcomings Puma
Adidas in 1924 two German Brothers
Rudolph dler and Adolf dler created a
shoe company called Gaber dasler shuab
in 1948 the two had a falling out and
they realized that they could no longer
work together they decided to split and
start their own companies one brother
created puma and the other created
Adidas it's hard to tell which brother
got his revenge since both brothers
businesses are successful worldwide
Lamborghini the creator of Lamborghini
originally owned a tractor company
called Lamborghini trator and he
produced tractors from leftover military
hardware he was driving a Ferrari at the
time and he was personally insulted by
the founder of Ferrari Enzo Ferrari to
get his revenge he switched from
manufacturing tractors to
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