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Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

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The Impact of Charles Fleishman on Silicon Valley

Fleishman's sold this to the military first to help and then after World War II sold it in stores post-war they went from being already the dominant US yeast company. Their family became generationally wealthy. The impact on Silicon Valley is that the great great great granddaughter of Charles Fleishman is Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of Theranos which was the fake blood testing company. Maybe she should have just gotten really good at baking and been like this is my heritage sourdough bread that cures cancer by the way. You got down there vocally I really appreciate it that was awesome.

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