MEPH Questions
How much was YouTube sold for?
$1.65 billion
How much was the first stock Warren Buffett bought?
$38 a share
How much was this original Nike deal worth? (Tiger Woods)
$40 million
What year did Steve Jobs leave Apple?
1985
How many siblings does Warren Buffett have?
2
What year was YouTube founded?
2005
What company did Nike's original manufacturer later become?
Asics
When was Buffett born?
August 30, 1930 (93 years old)
What was Phil Knight's relationship to Bill Bowerman before Nike?
Bill Bowerman was his track coach
What was Nike called before it changed its name?
Blue Ribbon Sports
Where was Tiger born?
Cyprus, California
What was SpaceX's first rocket?
Falcon 1
True or False: Amazon going public in 1997 significantly hurt sales
False
True or false: Dell had a college degree
False
When Facebook initially debuted, what was its original name, and who was the target audience?
February 2004, TheFacebook, students at Ivy-League schools
Which university did Mark Zuckerberg attend and what were his main fields of study before he left to concentrate on Facebook?
Harvard, Psychology & Comp. Science
What was Dell's biggest competitor?
IBM/Lenovo
Why was she awarded the presidential medal of freedom? (Oprah)
Impact on independent young African-American women.
What social media platform did Facebook acquire in 2012?
What year of college did Bill Gates drop out?
Junior year
What was the title of the first published video? (youtube)
Me at the zoo
Where did the group work before creating YouTube?
Paypal
Where was Oprah born?
Rural Mississippi
Where was Jobs born?
San Francisco, California
Where did Bill Gates grow up?
Seattle, Washington
Where was Elon Musk born?
South Africa
Who were the founders of Apple?
Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne
What university did she attend? (Oprah)
Tennessee State University
What was the name of SpaceX's capsule that docked with the ISS?
The Dragon
What college did Dell attend?
UT Austin
What prompted the creation of YouTube? What problem did it solve?
Upload videos to the public.
What did Amazon sell before software?
books
What tactic has Amazon used to create a monopoly?
recommended only certain products on search results
