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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.

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