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Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook was cash positive for the first time and hit 300 million
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz hadn't even started out in the coffee business; he
What Extremely Successful People Were Doing At Age 25
Marissa Mayer had just started her job as Google's 20th employee.
At 24, Mayer became employee number 20 at Google and the company's first female engineer.
She remained with the company for 13 years before moving on to her role as CEO of Yahoo.
She remained with the company for 13 years before moving on to her role as CEO of Yahoo.
Google didn't have the sorts of lavish campuses it does now, Mayer said in an interview with VMakers,
"During my interviews, which were in April of 1999, Google was a seven-person company.
I arrived and I was interviewed at a ping pong table which was also the company's conference table,
and it was right when they were pitching for venture capitalist money, so actually after my interview Larry
and Sergei left and took the entire office with them."
"During my interviews, which were in April of 1999, Google was a seven-person company.
I arrived and I was interviewed at a ping pong table which was also the company's conference table,
and it was right when they were pitching for venture capitalist money, so actually after my interview Larry
and Sergei left and took the entire office with them."
Since everyone in the office interviewed you those days, Mayer had to come back the next day for another
round.
round.
Martha Stewart was a stockbroker for the firm of Monness, Williams, and Sidel, the original
Oppenheimer & Co.
Oppenheimer & Co.
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Before her name was known by every American household, Martha Stewart actually worked on
Wall Street for five years as a stockbroker. Before that, she was a model, booking clients from
Unilever to Chanel.
Wall Street for five years as a stockbroker. Before that, she was a model, booking clients from
Unilever to Chanel.
"There were very few women at the time on Wall Street … and people talked about this glass ceiling, which
I never even thought about," Stewart said in an interview with PBS' MAKERS series. "I never considered
myself an unequal and I think I got a very good education being a stockbroker."
I never even thought about," Stewart said in an interview with PBS' MAKERS series. "I never considered
myself an unequal and I think I got a very good education being a stockbroker."
In 1972, Stewart left Wall Street to be a stay-at-home mom. A year later, she started a catering business.
Mark Cuban was a bartender in Dallas.
At age 25, Cuban had graduated from Indiana University and had moved to Dallas. He started out as a
bartender, then a salesperson for a PC software retailer. He actually got fired because he wanted to go close
a deal rather than open a store in the morning. That helped inspire him to open his first business, MicroSolutions.
bartender, then a salesperson for a PC software retailer. He actually got fired because he wanted to go close
a deal rather than open a store in the morning. That helped inspire him to open his first business, MicroSolutions.
“When I got to Dallas, I was struggling — sleeping on the floor with six guys in a three-bedroom
apartment,” Cuban writes in his book “How to Win at the Sport of Business.” “I used to drive around, look at
the big houses, and imagine what it would be like to live there and use that as motivation.”
apartment,” Cuban writes in his book “How to Win at the Sport of Business.” “I used to drive around, look at
the big houses, and imagine what it would be like to live there and use that as motivation.”
Lloyd Blankfein was an unhappy lawyer.
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Blankfein didn't take the typical route to finance. He actually started out as a lawyer. He got his law degree
from Harvard at age 24, then took a job as an associate at law firm Donovan Leisure.
from Harvard at age 24, then took a job as an associate at law firm Donovan Leisure.
"I was as provincial as you could be, albeit from Brooklyn, the province of Brooklyn," Blankfein told William
Cohen at Fortune Magazine.
Cohen at Fortune Magazine.
At the time, he was a heavy smoker and occasional gambler. Despite the fact that he was on the partner track
at the firm, he decided to switch to investment banking, joining J. Aron at the age of 27.
at the firm, he decided to switch to investment banking, joining J. Aron at the age of 27.
Ralph Lauren was a sales assistant at Brooks Brothers.
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He was born Ralph Lifshitz in the Bronx, New York, but changed his name at the age of 15. He went on to
study business at Baruch College and served in the Army until the age of 24 when he left to work for Brooks
Brothers.
study business at Baruch College and served in the Army until the age of 24 when he left to work for Brooks
Brothers.
At 26, Lauren decided to design a wide European-styled tie, which eventually led to an opportunity with
Neiman Marcus. The next year, he launched the label "Polo."
Neiman Marcus. The next year, he launched the label "Polo."
JK Rowling came up with the idea for the Harry Potter series on a train.
In 1990, Rowling was 25 years old when she came up with the idea for Harry Potter duirng a delayed four-hour
train ride.
train ride.
She started writing the first book that evening, but it took her years to actually finish it. While working as a
secretary for the London office of Amnesty International, Rowling was fired for daydreaming too much about
Harry Potter and her severance check would help her focus on writing for the next few years.
secretary for the London office of Amnesty International, Rowling was fired for daydreaming too much about
Harry Potter and her severance check would help her focus on writing for the next few years.
During these years, she got married, had a daughter, got divorced, and was diagnosed with clinical depression
before finally finishing the book in 1995. It was published in 1997
before finally finishing the book in 1995. It was published in 1997
Warren Buffett was working as an investment salesman in Omaha.
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In his early 20s, Buffett worked as an investment salesman for Buffett-Falk & Co. in Omaha before moving to
New York to be a securities analyst at age 26. During that year, he started Buffett Partnership, Ltd., an
investment partnership in Omaha.
New York to be a securities analyst at age 26. During that year, he started Buffett Partnership, Ltd., an
investment partnership in Omaha.
New York just wasn't for him, Buffett told NBC. "In some places it's easy to lose perspective. But I think
it's very easy to keep perspective in a place like Omaha."
it's very easy to keep perspective in a place like Omaha."
Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook was cash positive for the first time and hit 300 million
users.
Mark Zuckerberg had been hard at work on Facebook for five years by the time he hit age 25. In that year — 2009 — the company turned cash positive for the first time and hit 300 million users. He was excited at the time, but said it was just the start, writing on Facebook that "the way we think about this is that we're just getting started on our goal of connecting everyone."
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz hadn't even started out in the coffee business; he
was a Xerox salesman.
After graduating fromNorthern Michigan University, Schultz worked as a salesman for Xerox. His success there led a Swedish company named Hammerplast that made coffeemakers to recruit him at age 26.
While working for that company, he encountered the first Starbucks outlets in Seattle, and went on to join the company at age 29.
On his job in Xerox, Schultz writes in "Pour Your Heart Into It": "I learned more there than in college about the worlds of work and business. They trained me in sales, marketing, and presentation skills, and I walked out with a healthy sense of self-esteem. Xerox was a blue-chip pedigree company, and I got a lot of respect when I told others who my employer was ... But I can't say I ever developed a passion for word processors."
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