Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company

John Anderson, one of 104's attorneys, sat down and wrote a long letter that turned out to be well worth the wrist cramping amount of effort he put into it. Ford eventually netted him $17 million. The letter was to his father, a Civil War surgeon who was now the mayor of La Crosse, Johnson, asking him for $5,000 to invest. John: Henry Ford is very much, in my opinion, what an entrepreneur is. And that is like, yeah, you want to make money of course, but you want control.