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Jon Erlichman

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Tech, stocks & business history. Anchor “The Open” 9-10am on @BNNBloomberg & “Bloomberg Markets” 1-2pm on @BloombergTV 💍 @carolinelesley

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Companies that changed their names:

Amazon: Cadabra
Best Buy: Sound of Music
Block: Square
eBay: Auction Web
Google: BackRub
Instagram: Burbn
Meta: Facebook
Netflix: Kibble
Nike: Blue Ribbon Sports
Pepsi: Brad’s Drink
Playboy: Stag Party
7-Eleven: Tote’m Stores
Snapchat: Picaboo…

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“The hardest thing to listen to - your instincts, your human personal intuition - always whispers. So you have to be ready every day of your lives to hear what whispers in your ear.”

~ Steven Spielberg

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“People who start a company because they want to make lots of money…I haven’t seen many of those succeed.”

~ Steve Jobs

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On this day in 1983: Apple recruited Pepsi’s John Sculley to be its CEO.

Steve Jobs famously asked him:

“Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to change the world?”

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