
Companies That Built the World: Dupont - Episode 298
Unprofessional Engineering
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A, 19 O Two. Can I Go Back to My Time?
A, 19 o two. Can i go back to my time? A, yes, please. In january the third generation of duponts decided, you know, what we don't like is having a company. We want sell this thing. But elfie, elfie dupont, a, fourth generation duponter, decided he wanted to buy it up and enlist it as cousins t coleman and pierre s duponta to buy this up. The cousins buy the business for 12 million dollars in 19 o two, which would be about 200 and forty million dollars in to day dollars. So really, if you think about it, a hundred and 20 years later
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