Today we are are celebrating boss's day and here are facts about some of the most interesting real-life bosses.
7 interesting facts about real-life bosses
Steve Jobs almost became a Buddhist monk.
Apple founder Steve Jobs travelled to India in 1974 seeking spiritual enlightenment. He practiced Zen Buddhism in his early 20’s, and even considered becoming a monk at Eihei-Ji in Japan.
Elon Musk inspired Robert Downey Jr’s portrayal of Tony Stark
In the 2008 film ‘Iron Man’, actor Robert Downey Jr. turned to Tesla CEO Elon Musk for help learning the mannerisms of a tech-savvy billionaire. Musk later made a cameo appearance in the film ‘Iron Man 2’
The idea for Google came to Larry Page in a dream.
Larry Page was a 22-year-old graduate student at Stanford when he dreamt that he had somehow managed to download the entire Web and just kept the links.
During a 2009 University of Michigan commencement speech, he said he immediately grabbed a pen when he awoke and wrote down what became the basis for an algorithm. He used this algorithm to power a new Web search engine now known as Google.
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PepsiCo’s former CEO Indra Nooyi wrote thank you letters to her employees’ parents
Indra Nooyi, the former CEO of PepsiCo, wrote more than 400 letters each year to the parents of her senior executives.
“I wrote a paragraph about what their child was doing at PepsiCo,” she says. “I said, ‘Thank you for the gift of your child to our company.’”
Bill Gates donated more than $50 billion to charitable causes.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has donated a sizable chunk of his wealth to charitable cause through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation after he realised he makes more than he could possibly spend.
He, along with billionaire investor Warren Buffett, founded “Giving Pledge,” a movement encouraging other billionaires to donate to the unprivileged.
Jeff Bezos almost named his company "Cadabra" instead of Amazon.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos wanted to give his company a more magical sounding name, but was discouraged from doing so by Amazon's first lawyer, Todd Tarbert as the name "Cadabra" sounded a little too similar to "cadaver."
He eventually settled on ‘Amazon’, the largest river in the world, because he was building the largest bookstore in the world.
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Mark Zuckerberg designed the Facebook logo to be blue because of his colourblindness
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg picked blue as the colour scheme for the social media website as he has red-green colourblindness.
"Blue is the richest colour for me, I can see all of blue," explained Zuckerberg in an interview.
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