People Who Turned One Simple Mistake Into Millions 😳

People Who Turned One Simple Mistake Into Millions 😳 Bette Nesmith 😳 this is Betty Nesmith Graham Bette Nesmith 😳 and one typo got her fired Bette Nesmith 😳 then made her rich Bette Nesmith 😳 in 1951 Bette Nesmith 😳 Betty was a single mother and bank secretary Bette Nesmith 😳 new electric typewriters were fast Bette Nesmith 😳 but one wrong letter could ruin a full page Bette Nesmith 😳 because their ink was difficult to erase Bette Nesmith 😳 then Betty remembered how painters corrected mistakes Bette Nesmith 😳 they covered them in her kitchen Bette Nesmith 😳 she mixed white tempera paint Bette Nesmith 😳 and took it to work with a tiny brush Bette Nesmith 😳 her boss never saw the corrections Bette Nesmith 😳 But other secretaries did Bette Nesmith 😳 soon they wanted bottles too Bette Nesmith 😳 Betty named it Mistake out and built a business after work Bette Nesmith 😳 then came the most ironic typo of her life Bette Nesmith 😳 she put her company's name on a bank letter and was fired Bette Nesmith 😳 with a son to support Bette Nesmith 😳 Betty bet everything on the product that had cost her job Bette Nesmith 😳 IBM rejected it Bette Nesmith 😳 but General Electric ordered four times her monthly production Bette Nesmith 😳 by 1968 she sold 1 million bottles a year Bette Nesmith 😳 by 1968 she sold 1 million bottles a year Bette Nesmith 😳 1979 Gillette bought Liquid Paper for $47.5 million Bette Nesmith 😳 one typo took Betty's job Bette Nesmith 😳 but she turned it into a product that erased everyone else's