In Korean, Hyundai means "modern times". Founded in 1947 as an engineering and construction company, Hyundai received serious construction tenders from the state after South Korea's independence and undertook most of the country's transportation-infrastructure works.
Sophia Amoruso dropped out of school at an early age with a diagnosis of hyperactivity disorder and attention deficit disorder. Her parents also divorced when she was young. Sophia Amoruso tried to survive by settling in the US state of Sacramento.
French-American entrepreneur making billions of dollars thanks to people using the dog filter on Snapchat.
The extraordinary life story of Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, who developed his first software at the age of 15.
On December 19, 1912, brothers Allan and Malcolm Loughead founded the Alco Hydro-Aeroplane company in San Francisco. In the garage where they repaired cars during the day, they focused on the seaplane project in the evenings.
Invented by Wilfred Handley in 1929, Domestos bleach was outside of all the known patterns about bleach until then.
Huawei, a Chinese multinational telecommunications company, ranks today as the world's number two smartphone maker, just behind Samsung, which means it has officially surpassed Apple. So, how was Huawei founded and by whom? How did he manage to surpass Apple without anyone noticing?
Bette Nesmith, who worked as a secretary in the 1950s, had great trouble correcting the mistakes she had made in her typed writing, and spent a lot of time rewriting documents.
How was this empire, called Siemens, originally a "commercial" establishment, formed? Here is its story:
Here is the very interesting founding story of Procter & Gamble:
