The Humble Beginnings Of Tech Giants
# Samsung
In the late 1960’s ,before Samsung entered the electronic industry ,it was was established as a trucking and trading company. The company operated in areas like food processing, textiles, insurance and retail.
Its co-founder Lee Byung-Chul set up its headquarters in a 16.5 square meter office with a telephone and a noodle machine, located in Ingyo-dong, Daegu, South Korea.
The Zuckerburg Suite as it is called now was previously as room of six where Mark wrote the code for Facebook.
The room is a dorm at Harvard, Kirkland House where on 4 February, 2004 Zuckerburg launched Facebook which had gained 1200 users in 24 hours.
The room is often visited by people to have a look at the place of the social networking miracle.
# Yahoo!
This time it is a promo at Stanford University where Jerry Yang and David Filo organized the website directory. The directory was called as Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web initially.
The company hadn’t become prominent till they shifted to 110 Pioneer Way in Mountain View, California where the tiny web portal was developed into a giant.
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