The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
Jenson and Bezos were at loggerheads. Jenson had tried to placate angry investors by getting the company to profitability. He raised the last round of capital from European bonds at a critical time and forced Bezos to make tough decisions when the company’s runway was getting short. But he also pushed to raise prices and campaigned against free shi
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
It was not so much that the value of Flagler’s holdings was threatened: by 1888 the value of Standard Oil shares had risen to more than $150 million, and even the eventual dissolution of the Standard Oil Trust was similar in financial impact to the reorganization, nearly a century later, of Ma Bell into all those little Baby Bells. For anyone who h
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