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William D. Cohan on Power, Ego, and the Imperial CEO
The Daily Stoic
The Myth of Thomas Edison and GE
There's this huge myth around Thomas Edison and GE, he actually had much less to do with GE's creation than the myth makers at GE would like you to believe. But what I learned in researching this book is actually Thomas Edison did not want to create this company. He was basically just pushed out as a shareholder, a minor shareholder of this company. And then Henry Villard and JP Morgan wanted to merge the company into a company that had been created bought by a guy named Charles Coffin.
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