Hall of Giants

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"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it."
— Estée Lauder

Lauder started mixing face creams in her uncle's laboratory as a teenager in Queens, New York. She showed up to salons uninvited and offered free samples to anyone who would listen. She got her first Saks Fifth Avenue counter, not through a pitch meeting but through relentless persistence and hard work. She built one of the largest beauty empires in the world starting from that counter.

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Asa Candler bought the Coca-Cola formula in 1888 for $2,300. The formula had been created by a pharmacist named John Pemberton. Candler saw what Pemberton didn't: that the drink's potential was not as a medicinal syrup but as a mass-market consumer product. Within a decade, Candler had built Coca-Cola into a nationally recognized brand through aggressive advertising and free sample campaigns. Today Coca-Cola is one of the most recognized brands in human history. He paid $2,300 for it. #Entrepreneur

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The Founding Fathers bequeathed us a great nation, allowing everyone to pursue their dreams and aspirations. The cause and effort that entrepreneurs, capitalists, and free market supporters is a noble one. @JohnMTillman

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The idea came first. It always does. Before the revenue, the headcount, the headlines, the brand, there was an entrepreneur with a vision to build something that served people better.

That's why @JohnMTillman founded the Hall of Giants, to celebrate those people who did just that. @Entrepreneur

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FedEx almost didn't survive its third year when they had over $29 million in losses. Employees had to hold their paychecks and Fred Smith sacrified alot to keep going.

FedEx is now a $60 billion company operating in 220 countries. #Entrepreneur

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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." — Thomas Edison

Edison's lab in Menlo Park was essentially the first industrial R&D operation in American history. He built the entire electrical grid system to power his light bulbs because he understood that a product without infrastructure is a novelty. Most people quit when something doesn't work but Edison catalogued it and never gave up.

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The American entrepreneur didn't wait for a government program or a generational handoff. They looked at a problem, decided it was their problem to solve, and got to work.

That instinct is still alive today.

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Every mass movement has an origin story the textbooks leave out At some point, someone chose the moment, someone chose the person, and someone lit the match. #Entrepreneur @pmarca

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DID YOU KNOW? Billionaire Chuck Feeney, co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers, secretly gave away $8 billion over 38 years. He lived frugally, traveled coach, wore a $15 watch, and didn't own a home nor car. His goal was to die broke. In 2023 he passed away worth only $2 million. #Entrepreneur

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The First Hall of Fame for Founders Is Coming — Take a Look Inside the Hall of Giants! @JohnMTillman, founder and CEO of Hall of Giants, details his mission to celebrate entrepreneurs by putting a spotlight on their role in building a better world.

Read the full article by @Entrepreneur here: https://t.co/zLpf3eyzB4

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In 1978, Bernie Marcus was fired at the age of 49 and felt like a failure. Then, a year later, he opened the first Home Depot warehouse.

Today it employs 460,000 people and earns almost $160B a year. #Entrepreneur #HomeDepot

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Carnegie arrived in America as a penniless Scottish immigrant, built the largest steel company in the world, and gave away 90% of his fortune before he died. #Entrepreneur #Philanthropy

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Did You Know? Ken Olsen founded Digital Equipment Corporation and helped define the minicomputer era by putting computing power in the hands of businesses before personal computers existed.

He was wrong about some things and right about the ones that mattered. His legacy leaves a profound impact on the modern world and technology. #Entrepreneur

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William Wrigley arrived in Chicago in 1891 with $32 and a box of soap.
He was throwing in free gum to stand out from the competition but then he noticed that the customers cared more about the gum than the soap.

He switched gears and made gum the business. Within two years he had launched Juicy Fruit and Wrigley's Spearmint. Those brand still sit on convenience store shelves today! #Entrepreneur

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The worst advice Katrina Lake (Founder of StitchFix) ever got came from a lawyer who told her to sell. She was only one year in, with less than a million dollars raised. Her lawyer told her the math did not add up, there was no chance.

She asked a different question entirely: Do I believe in myself enough to walk away from this? The answer was yes, and now she has a multibillion dollar company. #Entrepreneur #WomenInBusiness

Video Sourced from Good Morning America on CBS.

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ENTREPRENEUR HISTORY FACTS: In 1954, Ray Kroc, a 52-year-old milkshake machine salesman, visits a small burger stand in San Bernardino, California. The stand is run by two brothers named McDonald. Kroc sees something no one else does: a system so efficient and consistent it could be replicated everywhere. He convinces the brothers to let him franchise the concept. By the time of his death in 1984, there were over 7,500 McDonald's locations worldwide. He was 52 years old when he found his life's work and amibition. It's never too late to get started. #Entrepreneur

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DID YOU KNOW? Phil Knight sold shoes out of the trunk of his car at track meets. He was importing Japanese Tigers and hand-selling them to runners in the 1960s. The brand that defined a generation started with a trunk and a table.

Today, it is the apparel and shoes behemoth known as @Nike. #Entrepreneur

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The idea was never the problem. They just refused to quit. #Entrepreneur

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Fred Smith got a C in school. DeJoria lived in his car. Schultz heard no from 217 investors.

All three built billion-dollar companies anyway.