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David Choe: The Graffiti Artist Who Painted Facebook’s Walls and Walked Away with $200 Million
In 2005, a young graffiti artist named David Choe was offered a job that most people in his position would have turned down without a second thought. Paint the walls of a small tech startup’s first real office in Palo Alto, California, and get paid in either cash or company stock. The company was Facebook.
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Ted Williams, the Homeless Man with the Golden Voice: The Full Story
In January 2011, Ted Williams was standing on a freezing street corner in Columbus, Ohio, holding a cardboard sign that said he used to be a radio announcer, that he had a God-given gift, and that he’d fallen on hard times. He wasn’t expecting much. Just maybe a dollar and a cup of coffee. What
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The Man Who Painted Jungles He’d Never Seen 🌴
Henri sat at his desk in the Paris toll office, stamping documents and collecting taxes. It was 1886. He was 42 years old, a clerk checking shipments coming into Paris. His father had been a tinsmith. Henri had grown up poor, worked his way up to this modest government job. 📋 Except in his spare