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History·May 5, 2026Edwin Land: The Inventor Steve Jobs Modeled Himself On, and the Company That Forgot Him
Edwin Land held 535 patents — second only to Thomas Edison. He invented instant photography. He built a company Steve Jobs called 'a national treasure.' Then his board pushed him out, the company collapsed twice into bankruptcy, and one of the bankruptcies was caused by a $3.65 billion Ponzi scheme run by its new owner.
History·May 5, 2026WeWork: The Six Weeks That Took $47 Billion to Zero
On August 14, 2019, WeWork filed its IPO prospectus. On September 17, the IPO was withdrawn. In between, an investing public discovered that the most-hyped private company of the previous decade had been operating, in plain sight, with the governance practices of a family business.
History·May 4, 2026Sears Roebuck: The Amazon of 1900 That Took 130 Years to Die
By 1900, you could buy almost any product manufactured in America from a single mail-order catalog and have it delivered to your farmhouse. The company behind the catalog was, by every reasonable measure, the original Amazon. It also took 130 years to forget how to be.
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MYB This Weekend: Inganamort Talks Federal Education Tax Credit, Stopping Anti-Business Regs - New Jersey Business & Industry Association
MYB This Weekend: Inganamort Talks Federal Education Tax Credit, Stopping Anti-Business Regs New Jersey Business & Industry Association