This is a great list. Today I was thinking about a couple BIG companies started out doing small things: - Panasonic: Founded in 1918 s a vendor of duplex lamp sockets. - Casio: 1st Prod - Yubiwa pipe finger ring hands-free cigarette holder. Must be more stories like this.https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1187792127788343301 …
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Replying to @Molson_Hart @jamesdavid
There are more crAzy ones like that. Samsung was a rice or sugar trading firm iirc
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Replying to @Molson_Hart @jamesdavid
Dried fish, groceries, and noodles was Samsung’s starting product line
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Looks like Mitsubishi started as a shipping company, started diversifying into related fields — coal for ships, then shipbuilding, then iron, etc. Ling-Temco-Vought started as an small Dallas electrical contractor before becoming a large US conglomerate
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Conglomerates have fallen out of fashion but I’m going to build one.
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Wondered why I didn’t become an electrical contractor and roll it into conglomerate after reading Ling book - if you buy a company like Vought when building yours I will want to come see the
(h/t: @TheCreditBubble review http://www.creditbubblestocks.com/2015/01/review-of-ling-rise-fall-and-return-of.html?m=1 … )1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
Different time. We must play the hand we’re dealt.
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