Success Story of Adidas The company was successful from the outset. They acquired their first patent in 1925; a runner wearing their shoes won Olympic gold in 1928; and in 1936, sprinter Jesse Owens won four golds at the Berlin games in Dassler spikes. ... They decided to split their business; Rudolf formed Puma, and Adi founded adidas . Founders: Adolf Dassler Product line: Adidas Equipment Support Mens ... Adolf Dassler was the founder of the World’s second biggest sportswear manufacturing company Adidas . His father Christoph worked in a shoe factory and mother ran a laundry service. His elder brother Rudolf Dassler would manufacture the handmade spikes for the track shoes in their blacksmith’s shop and later founded the multinational company of athletic shoes and sportswear PUMA . Adolf Dassler was also trained as a cobbler and from very early age loved experimenting with innovative designs and ideas. At the age of 20,...
The Success Story Of Facebook History Of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg was a Harvard computer science student when he, along with classmates Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes invented Facebook. Amazingly, the idea for the website, now the world's most popular social networking page, was inspired by a botched effort to get Internet users to rate one another's photos. Hot or Not?: The Origin of Facebook In 2003, Zuckerberg, a second-year student at Harvard, wrote the software for a website called Facemash. He put his computer science skills to questionable use by hacking into Harvard's security network, where he copied the student ID images used by the dormitories and used them to populate his new website. Website visitors could use Zuckerberg's site to compare two student photos side-by-side and determine who was "hot" and who was "not." Facemash opened on ...