Nokia

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• Nokia Sold Its Phone Business for €5.44 Billion and Kept Going€5.44B→$7.6BSold for → Microsoft's write-down

  A Finnish pulp mill became a maker of boots, tires and cables, then the world's biggest phone company. In 2013 it sold the phones to Microsoft. In 2015 Microsoft wrote off more than it had paid.

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  How Acorn and Apple Created Arm in a Turkey Barn$1.5M→$54.5BApple's stake cost → Value at 2023 IPO

  Arm built a chip empire without making chips. It started in 1990 with twelve engineers from a struggling computer maker and a converted barn near Cambridge. Its designs are now inside most of the world's phones.