A Lesson in Failure: The Rise of the Mars Candy Company

→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFo... →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard':    • How Dick Came to be Short for Richard   Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut The Founder Of Hershey’s Booked A VIP Ticket On The Titanic    • The Founder Of Hershey’s Booked A VIP Tick...   What the M's in M&M Stands For    • What the M's in M&M Stands For   In this video: The legendary Roald Dahl’s book Charlie & Chocolate Factory from 1964 (and its subsequent two film adaptations from 1971 and 2005) told the story of a magical candy factory and its eccentric and mysterious owner Willy Wonka. A chocolate river, gum that is a whole turkey dinner, never-ending gobstoppers, and, of course, the singing and dancing oompa-loompas are just a few of the surprises that waited inside the doors of the famously secretive factory. Of course, in a real life candy empire, there are a lot more failures, hard work, father/son disputes, and an unfortunate lack of oompa-loompas. What follows is the tale of how the Mars candy company went from a small candy business started by a polio stricken teen to one of the largest candy companies in the world. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.p... Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b... http://www.bizjournals.com/washington... http://www.mars.com/global/about-mars... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars,_In... http://www.slate.com/articles/news_an... http://fortune.com/2013/01/17/mars-in... http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-ent... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin... http://www.minnesotamonthly.com/media... https://books.google.com/books?id=Zbp... https://books.google.com/books?id=Wq3...