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When Fusajiro Yamauchi founded Nintendo in 1889, he had a vision for the company that looked quite different from the electronic gaming company we know and love today.

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The original Nintendo product was related to playing, however. It took the form of hand-painted playing cards, which quickly took Japan by storm.

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Any fast car fans out there will probably know this one: before Lamborghini Automobili was Lamborghini Automobili, it was Lamborghini Trattori.

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Founded by Ferruccio Lamborghini just after World War II, the first Lamborghini product on the market was, in fact, a tractor. Some models were pretty sleek, to say the least!

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The popular hygiene product company Colgate was founded in 1806. Interestingly, however, it did not sell its now world-famous toothpaste until 1873.

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During the intermediate years, the company, which was headed up by its namesake William Colgate, primarily sold soap, candles, and starch.

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According to the biography on the Tiffany & Co. website, the company got its start as a "stationery and fancy goods store." It was founded in New York City in 1837.

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Nowadays Tiffany & Co. sells quite a different product, of course. The brand has retained its luxury status, but it is now associated specifically with jewelry instead.

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When David Abercrombie founded his clothing store in 1892, he intended it to be a sporting goods shop and outfitter. After that, the brand went through a number of iterations.

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It was only after Limited Brands bought the company in 1988 that it came to be known for the campus-style clothing it sells to many high school and college/university students today.

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Pixar -

Today, the name Pixar is used to refer to the critically and commercially successful animation studio. It is associated with a number of hit films.

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Back in the day, however, the first Pixar product was an imaging machine that has since been described as "so powerful that it changed medicine."

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Nestlé -

Nowadays a household name thanks to its successful confectionery brands, the first product of Nestlé was actually baby formula.

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Nestlé stopped with its original product when an article appeared in the New Internationalist in 1973 criticizing the company for supposedly getting mothers in developing countries hooked on formula.

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Berkshire Hathaway may nowadays be an investment vehicle for business tycoon Warren Buffett, but the company in fact has its roots in the textile industry.

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There are two companies behind the modern-day Berkshire Hathaway: Hathaway Manufacturing Company and Berkshire Cotton Manufacturing Company.

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Sony -

The beginnings of Sony seem very unlikely when you think about the successful tech company it is today. Its first product was nothing to do with games consoles; it was, in fact, a rice cooker.

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The original Sony rice cooker was supposed to fit with the company's vision of selling products suitable for everyday life. A simple product made of wood and aluminum, the rice cooker didn't take off.

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Nokia, too, took the scenic route to its final destination as a tech company. It started in Finland in 1865, when Fredrik Idestam opened a pulp mill.

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The company started by selling paper products (including toilet paper), before bouncing around a number of industries and eventually landing on phones in the 1960s.

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Lego -

An amalgamation and abbreviation of the two Danish words leg godt, Lego means "play well." Lego has always been a toy company, but it didn't start out with plastic bricks.

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Before Lego morphed into the colorful building block producer we know it as today, the company sold wooden toys that were made in a carpenter's shop.

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Marriott International -

Nowadays the name Marriott is associated with hotels all over the world. It didn't start out in the hotel business, however.

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Before Marriott International was Marriott International, it was the Hot Shoppes restaurant chain. In fact, it started out as a franchised A&W Root Beer stand!

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Hoover -

For a long time now, the name Hoover has been synonymous with vacuum cleaner. Its product in that vertical was so successful that the brand name entered our vocabulary.

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But before it branched out into vacuum clears, Hoover made leather goods. Their best-selling leather product was, funnily enough, a horse collar!

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McDonald's -

When Richard and Maurice McDonald founded their famous fast food chain in the 1930s, they started not with burgers, but with hot dogs.

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This is perhaps not so surprising as other examples on this list (hot dogs are fast food too, of course). It is funny, though, that the original product plays no part in the contemporary menu.

Sources: (Finance 101) (CNN)

See also: These famous companies completely changed their names

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