Value of $1,000 invested 5 years ago: Ethereum: $572,300 Bitcoin: $79,110 Shopify: $36,793 Tesla: $29,992 Etsy: $22,700 AMD: $18,172 Square: $16,450 Nvidia: $14,480 Adobe: $6,687 Apple: $5,799 Netflix: $5,674 Microsoft: $5,586 Amazon: $4,745 Google: $3,840 Facebook: $2,855

A profile of math scholar Sergey Brin:

Lego was founded in 1932. Its first product was a duck.

In 1999, Salesforce got started in a San Francisco apartment. By 2001, revenue was $5.4 million. Today, it generates $5.4 million of revenue in less than 2 hours.

Walmart’s rise over four decades:

Stephen King rejection letter in 1971:

95 years ago, Nikola Tesla predicted a future with smartphones:

On this day in 1985: Cray releases the world's fastest supercomputer. It cost $15 million (without disks). Today’s smartphones have more power.

Jack Dorsey’s first sketch of Twitter in 2005: