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Samsung logo stock photo from CES 2024 (3)

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority

Most major tech companies, like Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google, and many others, have humble beginnings, founded in basements, garages, dorm rooms, or makeshift home offices. But while many of these companies were in the tech, or at least tech-adjacent, space, the origins of plenty of tech giants in Asia and Europe aren’t as straightforward. Well before becoming the biggest name in Android and making our favorite phones today, Samsung used to sell noodles.

A grocery store at first

Shot of the Samsung trading company and grocery store in 1938