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The Greatest mistakes ever made in History You’ll be shocked Open thread 👇

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SONY In 1998, Sony had the chance to buy the rights to almost every Marvel character for $25 million. They chose to only buy the rights to Spider-Man for just 7 million. Sony said "Nobody gives a damn about the other Marvel characters." Avengers End Game changed the history of money making in movie industry

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NETFLIX In 2000, Reed Hashtings, the founder of Netflix, approached the CEO of Blockbuster , John Antioco to sell Netflix for $50 million dollars. However, Antioco refused the offer, claiming that it was a “very small niche business.” and that it wasn’t going to be profitable in the future. 2018, Blockbuster went bankrupt with 1,000 of its stores being closed down while Netflix has generated a revenue of $8.83 billion dollars with 220.6 millions subscribers.

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APPLE Ronald Wayne, the 3rd founding member of Apple, met Steve at Atari, and co-founded the company, owning a 10% stake. Unfortunately, his prior experiences served him wrong, and he got spooked about the prospects of starting a business. He sold his 10% shares for $800 million. If he hadn’t done so, his shares will be worth $345 billion today

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LASZLO HENYECZ : On May 22nd, 2010 a programmer on a Bitcoin Talk forum by the name of Laszlo Hanyecz paid another user 10,000 bitcoin to buy two Papa John’s pizzas. When Laszlo purchased the pizzas, his 10,000 BTC were quoted at roughly $41 At the current price of Bitcoin, Laszlo’s 10,000 BTC would be worth $1 billion today

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ALASKA Alexander II of the Russian Empire thought Alaska is useless with a lot of ice, so he sold it to the USA for $7.2 Million, approximately 1 billion Dollars in today's money but now Alaska one of the most important areas in the world with price above $50 billion.

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VICTORIA'S SECRET Roy Raymond wanted to buy his wife some lingerie but he was too embarrassed to shop for it at a department store. He then comes up with an idea. He gets a $40,000 bank loan, borrows another $40,000 from his in-laws, opens a store, and calls it

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SODA CLASH Ronaldo de Assis Moreira, known as Ronaldinho, cost himself a Coke sponsorship worth $750,000 for drinking a can of Pepsi at a press conference. Ronaldinho stunned Coke chiefs by turning up at a press conference and sipping nonchalantly

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ANDREAS ESCOBAR A Colombian defender who represented his country in 1994 world cup was reportedly k!lled by Mafias of Meddelin cartel in 1994 after he scored an own goal in the group stages against United states of America which later got his country eliminated

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PAYPAL PayPal once accidentally credited a man $92 quadrillion! $92,233,720,368,547,800. Chris Reynolds from Pennsylvania once checked his email statement and found that he has been credited an amount that would make him the richest man in the world. So he logged online and reality bit back. His account balance read $0. The correct amount. PayPal admitted the error and offered to donate an unspecified amount of money to a cause of Reynolds' choice.

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YAHOO! In 1998 Yahoo refused to buy Google for $1 million. in 2002 yahoo tries to buy google for $3 billion, google wants $5 billion, yahoo refused. From 2006 to 2008 Microsoft negotiates with Yahoo to buy it for $44 billion, Yahoo refused. Also, In 2005, Yahoo owned 30 percent of Alibaba, a profitable Chinese multinational e-commerce, technology, and retail platform. Seven years later, they decided to sell half their stake to Alibaba at $13 a share. At the time it seemed like a good deal… Yahoo! made $7.6 billion. Fast-forward to 2014. Alibaba goes public and breaks records when their stocks rose to $68 a share. Today shares in Alibaba are worth $150 (the company is valued at around $84 billion) and Yahoo! sold its internet business to Verizon in 2017 for $4.8 billion.

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