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TIL Robert Taylor, inventor of Softsoap (pump soap), realized that his idea had no patent protection. So he borrowed $12m & bought 100 million pumps, the entire American output for the next two years, giving him time to establish the brand without competition. In 1987, he sold it to Colgate for $61m

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