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Incidentally, I highly recommend reading about early industrialists. It's useful to anyone as a corrective to the mostly political history one gets taught in s
by pg 15y ago
Incidentally, I highly recommend reading about early industrialists. It's useful to anyone as a corrective to the mostly political history one gets taught in school. But I recommend it particularly to startup founders. The first thing you notice is how much is still the same. And the lessons may be clearer when they're seen from a distance.
- dabent 15y agoDo you have any reading recommendations for that topic?
- dwwoelfel 15y agoStudy in Power by Allan Nevins is a great biography of Rockefeller. E.H. Harriman by George Kennan is very good. It's also available on Google books (http://books.google.com/books?id=4fcZAAAAYAAJ http://books.google.com/books?id=4fcZAAAAYAAJ). If you haven't heard of Harriman, I encourage you to read about him. He is the epitome of the the 19th century industrialist. When he's not taking over railroads, he's out on scientific expeditions to Alaska, or squeezing shorts on the stock market, or hunting, or boxing, or playing pranks on his overly cocky Wall Street friends.