What is Stardock? Well, if you decide to visit Stardock’s website today, you will see various things: my desktop, a collection of desktop enhancement applications; my games, a gathering of computer games; and my tools, a slew of tools designed to assist computer users. This is a vast amount of applications, but it is even more interesting in finding out how it all came to be.

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Zappos, a company that sells shoes, is something else. No, really, they do things that many companies wouldn’t dare do to their employees. What is this you ask? Well, they pay them to quit! Yeah, that’s right, Zappos bribes their employees with $1,000 to quit their jobs. It might sound odd, but it really does work.

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