I for one appreciate when an article's title is good enough that I don't need to read the article.
> To get customers to come into the first Home Depot store, Marcus gave away cash.
Golly gee, seems't the ancient hardware startups aren't so different from today's computer startups!
It reminds me of the grossly fabricated download numbers some open-source software products boast of to give the impression of a large user base. Not sure if it really works when they add four zeroes.