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Patagonia closed its headquarters and all 29 of its U.S. stores on Election Day 2016 and paid every one of its roughly 2,000 employees for the day off — then closed the company for every general election that followed, co-founded a coalition that now spans more than 2,000 employers, and in 2024 moved the closure to early-voting day
June 24, 2026
Costco enforces a $1.50 hot dog and soda combo price set in 1985 — when then-CEO Craig Jelinek once suggested raising it, co-founder Jim Sinegal reportedly told him he would personally kill him if the price changed, and the chain absorbs the loss as a customer loyalty cost across more than 900 warehouses worldwide
June 24, 2026
When Nintendo released the Game Boy in April 1989 with a monochrome screen against the color Sega Game Gear and Atari Lynx, designer Gunpei Yokoi argued the lower-resolution display would give players 30 hours of battery life on four AAs versus six hours for competitors — the Game Boy went on to outsell both rivals combined by roughly eight to one
June 24, 2026
In 1982, Johnson & Johnson pulled 31 million bottles of Tylenol from shelves at a cost of $100 million after seven Chicago-area deaths from cyanide-laced capsules — the company’s decision to recall before regulators required it became the template every business school still teaches for crisis response
June 24, 2026
Being easygoing isn’t always a personality trait — for some adults it’s a strategy learned in households where having an opinion cost too much
June 24, 2026
Charles Ponzi promised investors a 50 percent return in 45 days on international postal reply coupons in 1920, took in $20 million in eight months from 40,000 Bostonians, and was exposed when a reporter noted there weren’t enough coupons in worldwide circulation to back even one percent of the claims
June 24, 2026
In the 1920s, a Kansas publisher named E. Haldeman-Julius tested his book titles by changing only the cover words and keeping the contents identical — Schopenhauer’s ‘The Art of Controversy’ barely sold until he renamed it ‘How to Argue Logically,’ sales jumped to tens of thousands, and he proved the headline mattered more than the book
June 23, 2026
Before Airbnb had a single full-time engineer in 2008, founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia sold 1,000 boxes of Obama O’s and Cap’n McCain’s cereal at $40 a box during the Democratic and Republican National Conventions to clear their credit card debt — the cereal money funded the company until Y Combinator accepted them months later
June 23, 2026
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