Before he created Facebook, a teenaged and “slightly intoxicated” Mark Zuckerberg live-blogged his way to fame when he launched Facemash with his Harvard roommates. But guess what, he's not the only one who found his entrepreneurial spirit over a few drinks. It turns out that alcohol, especially beer, is more than just a lubricant for socialization. It's magic potion that helps people come up with earth-shattering million dollar ideas! Don’t think so? Well, here are a few reasons that will convince you to take your next tipsy brainstorming session a little seriously:

The founders of Reddit, Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman, won over their venture capitalist over a few beers.

Ohanian revealed in an episode of the ‘A Total Disruption’ web-series that they got their funder's attention by offering to buy him a beer. Originally, both Ohanian and Huffman had set out to develop a food-ordering app. But after a conference in Boston, the two approached Y Combinator's Paul Graham and took him out for a few beers. Later, Paul Graham suggested them to develop "the front page of the Internet" instead of the app they were thinking about. Now, that's what you REALLY call a life-changing advice.

Anirudh Gupta, co-founder of Tripoto, got an investment proposal from his IIT-Delhi senior, Nikunj Jain in a bar.

According to an ET Tech interview, this is how their meeting panned out:

On a balmy Sunday afternoon, after a few mugs, both started talking about their common interest: spiritual teacher Osho.

Exhausted after discussing spiritualism for an hour, the conversation inevitably veered around to the materialistic path: Gupta started sharing his business plans about Tripoto; Jain was listening. "It was then that he proposed to invest," recalls Gupta, who got angel funding from Jain in October 2014. This March, the Delhi-based startup raised its second round of funding led by IDG Ventures India.