I'm not sure whether to say that the business world--not to mention kids everywhere--lost a giant of an inventor or a giant of a marketer this week, when the man responsible in part for the Frisbee, Silly String, and Hula Hoop died at the age of 82.
Richard Knerr, the cofounder of toy company Wham-O, died on Monday, at his home in California, of complications from a stroke.
Founded as a mail-order slingshot business in 1948 by childhood buddies Knerr...
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