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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
Tweak Your Biz Editorial Team June 23, 2026
When Rolex founder Hans Wilsdorf tied a waterproof Oyster around swimmer Mercedes Gleitze’s neck for her October 1927 vindication swim, she had to abandon the freezing crossing after ten hours — but the watch was still ticking when they pulled her out, and weeks later Wilsdorf bought the entire front page of the Daily Mail to tell the world
Tweak Your Biz Editorial Team June 22, 2026
When WD-40 launched in 1953, the formula was the 40th attempt to create a water displacement spray for the Atlas missile program — the chemists never patented it because filing would have required disclosing the recipe, and the unpatented formula has remained a trade secret for 73 years
Tweak Your Biz Editorial Team June 18, 2026
When James Dyson finished prototype 5,127 of his bagless vacuum in 1983, he had spent five years and was more than $1 million in debt — every major manufacturer rejected the design because the replacement-bag market was worth hundreds of millions a year
Tweak Your Biz Editorial Team June 16, 2026
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When IBM let Microsoft keep the licensing rights to MS-DOS in their 1980 contract, the lawyers thought the operating system was a throwaway detail — that single clause routed roughly $100 billion in eventual value away from IBM over the next 15 years
Tweak Your Biz Editorial Team June 16, 2026
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