Paying Attention
Big Brands' 1st Products
That Musk
100
This is the exact number of subscribers a Youtuber needs to participate in the Youtube Partner Program and to start making money by showing ads.
What is 1000 subscribers?
100
Waaaaay before their hit audio and communications products made billions of dollars, this brand's very first product included more wood than silicon chips.
What is Apple?
100
This is the online payment processing company (one of the oldest still in use today) that Elon Musk co-founded and eventually sold to Ebay for $1.5 billion dollars. It made paying for things online with a credit card safer and easier.
What is PayPal?
200
There are 5 steps of the design thinking process. These are 3 of the 5.
What are: 1) Empathize, 2) Define, 3) Ideate, 4) Build, 5) Test?
200
This brand is all over Jordan HS. (The first product they ever made recently sold at auction for well over 1 million dollars.)
What is Nike?
200
Elon Musk immigrated to the United States from this other English speaking country known for rugby, surfing, Nelson Mandela, and (sadly) apartheid - which was the reason that Elon was disgusted with his home nation and chose to leave.
What is South Africa?
300
The minimum number of weeks that a woman must be pregnant for her newborn baby to be viable is 21 weeks out of a "normal" 40 weeks of pregnancy. This fact will help you remember what the abbreviation "MVP" stands for to an entrepreneur. (Hint: It's NOT "most valuable player.")
What is "Minimally Viable Product"?
300
This brand's original slogan was "One million titles, consistently low prices." The brand's original "A"-shaped logo appears below.
What is Amazon?
300
This is the decade that Elon Musk was born.
What is the 70s? (1971, specifically)
400
This is the exact number of "public watch hours" a Youtube channel needs within 12 months to qualify for the Youtube Partner Program.
What is 4000 public watch hours?
400
Before bird logos and the 280-character limit, this company's original tagline was "If you have a cell and can txt, you'll never be bored again...E V E R !"
What is Twitter?
400
This CA-based university is home to winners. Not only does it boast the most NCAA D-I national championships across ALL official NCAA sports; Elon Musk attended here briefly as a grad student before leaving to focus on internet businesses.
What is Stanford University?
500
The other week you met 2 young entrepreneurs -- the two brothers who founded Laboosh. This is at least one of their names.
Who is "Cole" or "C"? Who is Spencer?
500
After WWII, this brand's first product was an electric rice cooker they designed to be many Japanese families' first appliance. The company quickly expanded to other electronic and audio devices.
What is Sony?
500
Tesla currently offers 4 different vehicles for sale. These are the names of 3 out of the 4.
What are Tesla Model 3, Model S, Model X, and Model Y?