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In 1995, the company promised to produce a commercially viable vehicle with a hybrid engine and reduced fuel consumption within three years.

“At the time, we viewed hybrid as a technology that could not be achieved until the early 21st century.” — Satoshi Ogiso, Toyota design engineer

The project was completed a year ahead of schedule, and the company sold more than 10 million hybrid cars.

8. Live Aid Festival — for rethinking the meaning and model of celebrity-led charity


In ten weeks, British musicians Bob Geldof and Midge Ure organized a 16-hour concert on two continents in support of famine victims in Ethiopia.
The results are impressive:

$127 million has been raised to help the victims.
1.5 billion — that's how many people watched Live Aid on TV.
9. M-Pesa — for providing Kenya with cutting-edge mobile technology, enabling it to start a banking revolution and overtake more developed economies


M-Pesa, launched in 2007, allowed customers to use simple text messages to send money, deposit and withdraw funds, and purchase airtime minutes.

In the first three years of service, users transferred over $600 billion. By 2019, M-Pesa had 31.8 million active users in Kenya, and the country had become a technology hub in Africa.

10. The Global Seed Vault in Svalbard — for creating insurance for world food security


The idea of ​​a global seed vault began to take shape in 2001, when switzerland number data the to plant genetic material. By 2004, the Norwegian government had studied the technical and political feasibility of the project. A remote island in the Svalbard archipelago, about 1,000 km from the North Pole, was chosen.

The mountainous region eliminated the risk of flooding, and the permafrost in the area would make it easier to maintain cold temperatures in the storage facility, even if the facility's cooling system failed and outside temperatures rose.

The team created a 146-meter tunnel that leads 120 meters into the mountain to three separate vaults, each about 27 meters long. Today, they store almost 1 million seed samples.

11. Streaming service Netflix is ​​proof that one project can completely turn around a company, an industry, and the habits of viewers around the world.


The project team launched the streaming service back in January 2007. Instead of rolling out its entire DVD collection to everyone, Netflix opened up only about 1,000 movies to a small portion of its six million users. The project quickly gained popularity.

" While the mass adoption of online movie watching will take several years due to content and technology issues, it's time for Netflix to take the first step ." — Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO