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decade were bought from someone else. As another example, the McDonald’s empire was

started when Ray Kroc bought an existing hamburger business and then turned it into a

global phenomenon. Likewise, Starbucks was a struggling mail-order business when

Howard Schultz bought it and turned his attention to retail expansion.