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SAMSUNG - from humble beginnings to one of the largest companies..

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Dubai's Burj Khalifa is the tallest structure ever constructed to date...and who built it? Who built Taipei 101, tallest building ever before Burj Khalifa? And the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, the tallest building before that? It was SAMSUNG..

Lee Byung-chul founded Samsung in 1938 as a trading company dealing in groceries (photo above). It mainly produced noodles before expanding into sugar and, later, wool. It had 40 employees. Today it has 500 000.