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Elon Musk once compared building a business to “eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.” George Orwell, for his part, once described writing a book as a “bout with a long illness,” a sentiment that many entrepreneurs and creatives would agree with.

Те кто пытался, или преуспел в первом, или втором, или и том и другом поймут. Забавная подборка, кое-что известно, но некоторые истории удивили, например история WD 40 или:

Beretta
Established: 1526 (491 years ago)

Even if you know nothing about guns, the image you likely have in your head when you think of what a handgun is a Beretta. After all, that’s what James Bond uses. In fact, one of the first Google results yields the question from a message board user, “Is the Beretta 92 in every movie ever made?” The Italian firearms company held a contract with the U.S. military for over thirty years beginning in 1985, delivering over 600,000 units in that period. But long before Beretta were mass producing sidearms they began by manufacturing barrels for something called an arquebus, a firearm technology so old it became obsolete in the late 16th century.

observer.com/2017/08/these-25-businesses-will-surprise-you-with-how-old-they-are-fiskars-zildjian-harpercollins-craigslist-nintendo-kikkoman/

А в Катц'с я так до сих пор и не попал, очень уж большие очереди.