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#61 Malcom McLean: The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
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Malcolm McLean's Leveraged Buyout
Malcolm McLean created an entirely new company to circumvent rules requiring ICC approval for a truck line to own a ship line. He cleared $14 million in the sale of McLean Trucking, his net worth in 1995, which $25 million are the equivalent of $220 million today. The country's best known trucking magnet walked away from the business he had built in order to build a new one based on some untested idea about shipping.
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