r/todayilearned • u/EtOHMartini • 27d ago

TIL that philanthropist and engineer Avery Fisher was motivated to start his own company after, identifying a way to save his employer $10,000 a year, was immediately denied a $5/week raise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avery_Fisher
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u/VolkspanzerIsME 27d ago

Ah yes. The Alexander Graham Bell method of managerial encouragement.

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u/Cuddlyaxe 27d ago

or honestly the whole blue LED light saga

It was literally one dude at a company who kept working at it when everyone was trying to veto him. He managed to do it for his company

His reward? Literally nothing

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u/TFielding38 27d ago

He at least got a Nobel Prize out of it which is a nice chunk of change.