Caves, codes, and cloud: The Iron Mountain story!

Fungi to files: Iron Mountain didn’t begin as a high-security storage facility, but as a mushroom cultivation farm. In 1936, a German-American entrepreneur, Herman Knaust, bought a depleted iron ore mine in Kingston, New York, for $9,000. Herman Knaust and his brother Henry launched Knaust Brothers Inc., and at one point, they were the world’s largest mushroom growers and canners. Herman was even nicknamed the “Mushroom King of America.”

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Scent From The Past

Old Spice wasn’t always the cult classic aftershave we know today. Surprisingly, it launched as a women’s fragrance. But when that didn’t take off, the brand pivoted, introducing its second fragrance, “Old Spice,” in 1938. When World War II began, founder William Lightfoot Schultz repurposed his factories for military production. This shift helped Old Spice gain global recognition as US soldiers carried it worldwide.

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