4 shocking facts about the history of tech companies

Some tech companies took a lot of evolution to become what they are today. There were those who took major turns to become the successes they are today. Others had no idea they were going to change the world.

Here are some facts you didn't know about some tech companies' beginnings:

1. Samsung started out making noodles and selling groceries:

The company was founded by Samsung Sanghoe in 1938. Samsung started out as a small trading company with forty employees located in what is now Ingyo-dong.

It dealt in locally-grown groceries and made noodles. The company prospered and the head office was moved to Seoul in 1947.

In the 1960s, the entered the electronics business. That phase of the story is still telling itself till this day.

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2. In 1999, the founders of Google actually tried to sell it to Excite for just US$1 million. Excite turned them downThe Google founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin were not really keen on making money, so they tried to sell Google for $1million to Excite. The CEO, George Bell tried to beat down the price to $750, 000. When they didn't agree, he kicked them out. Today, Google is worth over $300 billion. This is arguably the worst business decision in human history.

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3. Steve Jobs built Apple, and then got kicked out: In May 1985, John Sculley, whom Steve Jobs hired, decided to reorganize Apple, and proposed a plan to the board that would remove Jobs from the Macintosh group and put him in charge of "New Product Development."

This move would effectively render Jobs powerless within Apple. In response, Jobs developed a plan to get rid of Sculley and take over Apple. However, after the plan was leaked and Jobs confronted, he said that he would leave Apple. The Board declined his resignation and asked him to reconsider. Sculley also told Jobs that he had all of the votes needed to go ahead with the reorganization. A few months later, on September 17, 1985, Jobs turned in a letter of resignation to the Apple Board.

Calling it a 'resignation' is a modest way of putting it. He got kicked out. Period. He returned 10 years later, overhauled the system, and today, Apple is the most valuable brand in the world.

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4. Amazon was just a bookseller:

When Amazon first launched in 1995 as a website that only sold books, founder Jeff Bezos had a vision for the company's explosive growth and e-commerce domination.

He knew from the very beginning that he wanted Amazon to be "an everything store."

Today, it is the largest Internet-based retailer in the United States, and one of the largest in the world.

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