What is the main idea of this text? Who of these famous people has the best example of a successful career in your opinion?
SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEURS
Bill Gates and his partner, Paul Allen, realized that easy-to-use software was the key to making personal computers successful. In 1975, Microsoft Corporation was founded and its Disk Operating System (DOS) became the industry standard. Today, Microsoft is the world’s largest software company producing a wide range of software applications.
Charles Darrow just wanted to feed his family during the Great Depression; he invented a board game to entertain his friends. Today, Monopoly® is played worldwide.
Ray Crok took a small hamburger restaurant in California and developed a new way to organize food production to guarantee fast, friendly service and uniform quality. Today, McDonald’s is a worldwide operation selling billions of hamburgers a year.
Henry Ford in the early 20th century revolutionized car production with the first assembly line.
King Gillette gave men a “clean, safe shave” each morning when he invented the safety razor. In 1904 he sold 90,000 razors and more than 12 million blades. Today, at least 1.2 billion people around the world use one or more Gillette products each day.
Mary Kay found ready markets for cosmetics among an increasing number of working women.
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