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Imagine being rejected for over 300 times. Walt Disney experienced being rejected when he showed his idea of Mickey Mouse to bankers because they thought that the idea was ridiculous. He was also fired by a newspaper editor because “he lacked imagination and had no good ideas”.

Ex-CEO of Twitter, Dick Costolo was once a professional stand-up comedian. He was once also working with Google on areas of it.

In 2000, Netflix was about to be sold to Blockbuster for $50 million. Blockbuster called an unexpected meeting to CEO Marc Randolph and he noticed the CEO of Blockbuster John Antioco’s face about to burst into laughter when they talked about Netflix. “They laughed at us.”, he said. Now Netflix is worth $185 billion.

Drug Lord Pablo Escobar, also famous to his phone company, the Escobar Phone, spent over $1,000 for rubber bands to hold his cash. He also once burned $2 million dollars’ worth of cash because his daughter was cold.

Apple pays hacker 57 lakh for finding security flaws in its browser. It was also reported that the company paid $75,000 to a hacker to find numerous of zero-day vulnerabilities in their program and software.

Google Maps can calculate traffic by tracking the speed of the Android devices used on the road by most people. The combination of speed of the devices with the speed of other phones on the road moving at a given time, the program can easily create a picture of live traffic conditions.