As a history buff the best thing about reading a biography is the all access pass into a person’s life. Of course it can be said of all history that it is cyclical. In fact, this complicated, revered, and feared balancing act between business empires and public domain have so many parallels it pays to brush up on the past in order to understand where we are or may end up. These types of mega business and the people behind the curtain have always held a special place in the public conversation and the previous centuries were no exception. Likewise, the maneuvering of contemporary corporate titans, Apple, Amazon, Walmart and the like, continue to fascinate and titillate the ire of the very customers they obsessively serve. Attention grabbing headlines about Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos jockeying for world’s richest man title dominate business reporting. Whoever said “history repeats itself” was right on many accounts.
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