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TIP527: The Epic Collapse of GE w/ William Cohan

We Study Billionaires - The Investor’s Podcast Network

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Edison and the Electric Grid and Electric Power

Coffin is a name that's often overlooked or overshadowed by some of the other names we mentioned researcher Jim Collins once claimed that coffin not Welch was actually the greatest CEO of all time. While he struggled in the early years after the big merger which as you mentioned Edison was very much opposed to he then became a major innovator, writes Trey O'Neill. He grew up in Maine and his family he went to work for his uncle's shoe manufacturing company outside of Boston but there was this other business called the generation of electricity which was new and exciting and innovative with potentials like saying the internet today.

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