Other people had, coming up with the product idea the same way the company comes up with all its product ideas. That would make the man a fraud. However, he really did start out as a janitor at Frito-Lay before becoming a machinist operator and then senior machinist operator after 15 more years. Then he pitched the company a new line of snacks aimed at the Hispanic market, called Sabrositas. He got promoted, repeatedly, and he really did end up a marketing director.
His exaggerations claiming he made a different product, a famous one that we all know earn a big asterisk beside his name in the Snack Food Hall of Fame, but the real story remains pretty impressive. We could point out that when he wrote his first novel, he was living in a trailer park. Or, we could point out that, at the time, King was working as a school janitor.
He asked the other janitor, Harry, what they were for. This new connection in his mind between tampons and locker rooms inspired the opening scene of Carrie β and inspired all of Carrie. The opening idea was a girl getting her period in the locker room.
United Artists. King hasn't disclosed what share of this Harry demanded, but it must have been at least 60 percent. That was fortunate. There was no way a janitor tinkering with spare parts could end up with a video game. But janitor Yokoi did tinker together a novelty extendable hand , which Nintendo soon sold as a toy called the Ultra Hand.
Mario Wiki. In , Nintendo started making video games, and Yokoi found himself a part of this as well, making him one of the first video game designers in history.
