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Frauds And Visionaries - Bethany McLean

The Joe Walker Podcast

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Enron's Visionary

A lot of luck that goes into the being able to over deliver. Elizabeth Holmes technology never ever would have worked but say she had just miraculously gotten it to work. Edison got his light bulb to work right right before he he had he had to demonstrate it right and now he's regarded in history as a visionary whereas if he had not been able to get it to work perhaps he would have gone down in history as as a fraudster. Enron broadband was essentially Netflix ahead of its time right so had Enron been given another five years of of life perhaps it could have been Netflix.

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