Top 10 Successful COMPANIES that Started Life As Something Totally DIFFERENT

Most of us go through life not knowing who we are, or what we want to do, until at least a few decades in. Well go through many false starts, and travel through many dead-end paths, until we find the one that’s truly right for us. Many companies are the same way. Oftentimes, the most successful corporations on Earth started with one simple idea, and are now vastly successful in a very different area. Such as … →Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet?sub_confirmation=1 Help us translate our videos: https://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_queue?msg=10&tab=0 - Learn more why you might want to help: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6052538 Find more lists at: http://www.toptenz.net Entertaining and educational top 10 lists from TopTenzNet! Subscribe to our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TopTenz/ Business inquiries to [email protected] Other TopTenz Videos: Top 10 FIRST Products of FAMOUS Companies https://youtu.be/POKK1PV0lD4?list=PLQ4d2-ByGhnLt3JIYHY_PUk7TrxFJZFGK Top 10 UNDERHANDED Moves by Corporations https://youtu.be/t9z2XiQytxU?list=PLQ4d2-ByGhnLt3JIYHY_PUk7TrxFJZFGK Text version: http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-successful-companies-that-started-life-as-something-totally-different.php Coming up: 10. Iron Mountain 9. Hasbro 8. Western Union 7. Texas Instruments 6. 3M 5. American Express 4. DuPont 3. Wells Fargo 2. Cardinal Health 1. IBM Source/Further reading: http://www.ironmountain.com/Company/About-Us/History.aspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasbro http://corporate.westernunion.com/History.html http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/company/factsheet.shtml http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/3M-Company/Information/Resources/History/ http://about.americanexpress.com/oc/whoweare/ http://www2.dupont.com/Phoenix_Heritage/en_US/?src=heritagemodule6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wells_Fargo http://www.cardinalhealth.com/ http://www.ibm.com/ibm/us/en/?lnk=fai-maib-usen