The document discusses various companies and individuals:
- The X Company was originally known as the Haloid Company and produced the first photocopier machine.
- This company produced 381 million tires in 2011, making it the world's largest tire manufacturer.
- Snapdeal was founded by Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal after they were inspired by the Chinese marketplace Alibaba.com.
- The Dabbawalas of Mumbai deliver home-cooked lunches with almost zero errors despite complex logistics.
- BookMyShow struggled early on, taking inventory risks by purchasing movie tickets to resell.
- Myntra was established by Mukesh Bansal and later merged with Flip
4. *Question 3
The X Company used to be known as the Haloid
Company almost 100 years ago. But in 1938,
Chester Carlson invented a technique.
Unfortunately no one was willing to invest in his
invention, and many big giants like IBM, GE, RCA
and others decided not to finance this invention.
But Haloid Company decided to go with Chester
and made the first machine named Haloid X 14.
Name X.
6. *Question 5
This company produced 381 million tyres
in 2011, making them the world's largest
tyre manufacturer by number of units
produced. In spite of the figures big tyre
giants such as MRF, Bridgestone, and
Goodyear do not consider X to be a threat
10. *Question 9
The ____ Corporation was formed as a merger
of Finnish Rubber Works, the _____Wood Mill,
and the Finnish Cable Works in 1967. The
company has sold a variety of products in the
past including television, shoes, car tires and
others. The evolution and the meaning of the
logo is unclear due to the changing business
over the years.
11. Question 10
At 19, he helped create Napster. At
24, he was foundingpresident of
Facebook.At 30, he’s the hard-
partying,press-shy genius of social
networking, a budding billionaire,
andplayedby Justin Timberlake in
David Fincher’sfilm, TheSocial
Network.
12. _______ is popularly confused as the
acronym for ‘Computer Information System
Company’. The name _______ was actually
derived from the city name, San Francisco.
Question 11
14. • ______ originated in 1893 under the name
of “Brad’s Drink”. It was named after the
pharmacist Celeb Bradham. In 1898,
Brad’s Drink was renamed _______. The
name change was apparently due to
digestive enzyme pepsin and kola nuts
used in the formula.
Question 13
16. Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith wanted a
name that included mail. They settled on
______ because it included the letters
HTML which is the programming
language they used to create the site.
Question 15
17. What is the full form of LG?
(Hint: It’s not ‘Life’s Good’)
*Question 16
22. Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal, co-founders of the
company, had just returned from a visit to China. It
was then a group deals' site, akin to Groupon,
offering customers discounts at restaurants, hotels,
movie theatres and the like. In China, the two
founders had seen how the giant Chinese online
marketplace Alibaba.com worked and wanted to
recreate the model.Name the company.
24. • The ABC has produced a documentary on them and
Prince Charles visited them during his visit to India; he
had to fit in with their schedule, since their timing was
too precise to permit any flexibility. Charles also
invited them to his wedding. Owing to the tremendous
publicity, some of the they were invited to give guest
lectures in some of the top business schools of India,
which is very unusual. It is frequently claimed that they
make less than one mistake in every six million
deliveries.Who am I talkingabout?
26. • We did what the market required us to do. Survival
was the mother of invention. We went and bought
inventory from cinemas. We had 100s of people to go
and deliver tickets on motor bikes. We had an
opportunity loss on weekends and an actual loss on
weekdays. We had 12 call centres in 12 cities. We
would buy these tickets and sell them and lot of times
it would get rejected. We were carrying inventory.
There wouldbe loss intransit.
• The tragicstartofwhich huge company?
28. • Established in 2007 by Mukesh Bansal along with
Ashutosh Lawania and Vineet Saxena, X was in the
business of on-demand personalisation of gift items.
Then it entered the fashion market. 2014 saw the
merging of X with another e-commerce giant and
continues to operate independently to increase its
market share from 50 to 70 per cent of the market
share.
30. • Dorsey introducedthe idea of anindividual
using an SMS service to communicate with a
small group. The definitionwas 'a short burst of
inconsequentialinformation,'and 'chirpsfrom
birds'. And that's exactly what the productwas.
What am I talking about?
35. The fatherof this companywas a man who has
designedfor many ofthe automobile
companieswe know today. The company
eventuallywent onto producethe largest
selling carin history. Also, this company was
vitalin the SecondWorldWar in helpingthe
Nazi's.