Question 1
Airbnb's founders helped fund the company by selling which unexpected product?
Answer
Breakfast cereal
Short on money, the founders designed and sold limited-edition boxes of breakfast cereal, and the proceeds helped keep the young company alive.
Question 2
Before streaming, how did Netflix get movies to its customers?
Answer
DVDs by mail
Netflix began as a mail-order rental service, sending subscribers DVDs in its distinctive red envelopes and taking them back the same way.
Question 3
Long before Mario, what did Nintendo originally make?
Answer
Playing cards
Nintendo started out making hanafuda, traditional Japanese playing cards, decades before it ever built a video game.