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Stories of Successful people-
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1. Bill
Gates is now one of the world’s wealthiest individuals. He entered the entrepreneurial scene with a
company called Traf-O-Data, which aimed to process and analyze the data from
traffic tapes. He tried to sell the
idea alongside his business partner, Paul Allen, but the product barely even
worked. A few years later, he created
his first Microsoft product, and forged a new path to success.
2 Walt
Disney is one of the most creative geniuses of the 20th century was once
fired from a newspaper because he was told he lacked creativity. Trying to
persevere, Disney formed his first animation company, which was called
Laugh-O-Gram Films. Desperate and out
of money, Disney found his way to Hollywood and faced even more criticism and
failure until finally, his first few classic films started to skyrocket in
popularity.
3. Steve
Jobs is an impressive entrepreneur because of his boundless innovations, but
also because of his emphatic comeback from an almost irrecoverable
failure. Undaunted by the failure,
Jobs founded a new company, NeXT, which was eventually acquired by Apple.
Once back at Apple, Jobs proved his capacity for greatness by reinventing the
company’s image and taking the Apple brand to new heights.
4. Dhiru Bhai
Ambani- India’s largest private sector company. Created an equity cult in the
Indian capital market. Reliance is the first Indian company to feature in
Forbes 500 list. His father was a
school teacher. He tried to sell the
idea alongside his business partners,
but the product barely even worked. After doing his matriculation at
the age of 16, Dhirubhai moved to Aden, Yemen. He worked there as a
gas-station attendant, and as a clerk in an oil company. He returned to India
in 1958 with Rs 50,000 and set up a textile trading company. In 1992, Reliance became the first Indian
company to raise money in global markets, its high credit-taking in
international markets limited only by India’s sovereign rating. Dhirubhai Ambani was named the Indian
Entrepreneur of the 20th Century by the Federation of Indian Chambers of
Commerce and Industry (FICCI). A poll conducted by The Times of India in 2000
voted him “greatest creator of wealth in the century”.
5. The
Pierre Omidyar way. In 1995, a computer programmer started auctioning off
stuff on his personal website. Auction Web, as it was then known, was really
just a personal project, but, when the amount of web traffic made it
necessary to upgrade to a business Internet account, Omidyar had to start
charging people fees. He actually hired his first employee to handle all the
payment checks. The site is now known as eBay.
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