Originally Posted by pornguy

I had No Idea that

-1873-1895 Worldwide Depression for 22 years (Vienna Stock Market Crash)
Startups during this period make up a large number of the Fortune 500 and this is the short list.
Eli Lilly, IBM, Merck, Hershey's, Gillette, Alcoa, J&J, Chevron, GE, AT&T, Abbott, Coors, Johnson Controls, Bristol-Myers and PPG


That IBM and Johnson Controls were so old.

IBM: Endicott, New York, U.S. (1889, incorporated 1911)

Johnson Controls Founded 1885