Robert Chesebrough Vaseline. In 1875, he founded the Chesebrough Manufacturing Company that in 1955 became Chesebrough-Ponds, a leading manufacturer of personal-care products. Chesebrough patented the process of making petroleum jelly (U.S. Patent 127,568) in 1872. By 1874, stores were selling over 1400 jars of Vaseline a day. Chesebrough's success stemmed from firm belief in his product. Before he began selling petroleum jelly, he tested it on his own cuts and burns. Chesebrough was still unable to sell any to drug stores until he travelled around New York demonstrating his miracle product. In front of an audience, he would burn his skin with
Jelly (app) had raised Series B funding from Greylock Partners. On March 31, 2014, Jelly updated its iOS app to the 1.1 version that allows users create questions using a map and a specific location. On March 8, 2017, Pinterest said it had acquired Jelly Industries. Jelly (app) Jelly was an app that served as a Q&A platform, created by Jelly Industries, a search-engine company founded and led by Biz Stone, one of Twitter's co-founders. In March 2017, Jelly was acquired by Pinterest for an undisclosed amount. Jelly differentiates itself from other Q&A platforms such as Quora and ChaCha by relying on