Surprising Facts about 10 Famous CEOs

#3.Marissa Mayer

Marissa Mayer, the current president and CEO of Yahoo, is obsessed with cupcakes and high fashion. Mayer was said to have recently bought an array of cookbooks to study the cupcake recipes in each. She creates a spreadsheet for the ingredients and then testes the recipes before writing her own.

#4.Michael Dell

Michael Dell is the chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of Dell. From an early age, he showed interest in technology and business. When he was eight, Michael wanted to take a high school equivalency exam, in an attempt to get out of school and enter the business world. At age 15, he bought one of the first Apple computers and immediately disassembled it to see if he could put it back together.

#5.Asa Candler

Asa Candler, an early president of the Coca-Cola Company who bought the formula in 1887, worried rivals would obtain the recipe, instructed his staff not to write it down. Staff removed all labels from ingredient containers and identified them by sight and smell only. Candler even went through the company mail, so he could destroy the invoices that employees might attempt to sell to other drink makers.

#6.Tim Cook

Apple boss, Tim Cook said he decided to join Apple after just five minutes of his interview with Steve Jobs. Cook said he had been getting repeated calls in 1998 from an executive search firm, hired by Jobs to find an operations executive. After saying “no” multiple times, Cook finally agreed for an interview.

#7.Walt Disney

Walt Disney created Mickey Mouse after losing the copyrights to his first popular character, a rabbit named, Oswald. However, Disney’s company got the rights back 78 years later in 2006.

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