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:

Ben Lerer and Adam Rich were drinking beers on their roof when they came up with the idea for Thrillist.

Thrillist Media Group founders Ben Lerer and Adam Rich were buddies living in New York in 2004 when they single-handedly started the first Thrillist blog. In an interview with Mashable, Lerer recounted the day Thrillist was conceptualized:

"We were sitting on my roof six years ago hanging out having a beer (you know), half complaining that we were unhappy with our jobs or felt sort of under-utilized and a little bit lost, and the other half, Adam was getting ready to take a girl out to dinner. We were trying to find a place and both sort of started talking about how frustrated we were with the city guides that we were reading, and we had also been talking about how we just wanted to go and do something else. And that sort of sparked it."

Tinder was actually launched at a college party.

The Huffington Post has reported that co-founders, Sean Rad and Justin Mateen actually launched Tinder at the University of Southern California during a birthday party for one of the founder's brothers while he was at school there. The guests had to show they’d downloaded the app, and downloads jumped from 400 users on the first day to over 4,000 by the end of the first week!