Regular Business Insider readers know that every weekend, I write a take on something Tesla-related. This time around, I’m going to ask for patience as I preface the effort with a short auto-industry history lesson. The development of the car business in the 20th century followed a predictable pattern: daring innovators gave way to savvy […]
Elon Musk and Rivian’s RJ Scaringe: The Henry Ford-Alfred Sloan of EVs Read More »
For as long as modern capitalism has been around, and certainly since we’ve been inundated with TV shows and movies that offer a glimpse into that world, we’ve been infatuated with the lifestyles of the rich and famous. For the most part, these types of stories have typically centered around the United States and the
Veteran Digital Communicator Brings Decades of Award-Winning Experience to Boundary-Pushing Agency. Summit, NJ, March 15, 2019 –(PR.com)– “Creativity with purpose.” That phrase appears at the top of Daryn Henry’s LinkedIn profile. Mr. Henry’s dedication to this principle helps explain why Arteric selected him to lead Arteric’s creative team, building on a remarkable period of growth
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WordStream has some impressive employees in our ranks: from industry influencers to marathon runners, from analysts to authors. The Employee Spotlight series aims to highlight the talented individuals who work here. Each month, we’ll be featuring an interview here on the blog and on our social accounts. For this month’s Employee Spotlight, we talked with
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On the first of December, we will celebrate the 105th anniversary of Henry Ford’s installation of the first moving assembly line for the mass production of automobiles. His innovation reduced the time it took to build a car from more than 12 hours to two hours 30 minutes. Henry, of course, didn’t invent the assembly
Business Insider founder Henry Blodget says that the idea investors got that Twitter was going to be the next Facebook was absurd. “But I do think that the big problem with Twitter was expectations just got absurdly out of whack a few years ago,” Blodget said. “People thought, oh, it’s the next Facebook. It was
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Today’s Google doodle marks the 180th birthday of the British scientist, Sir William Henry Perkin. According to Google, Perkin, while cleaning out a beaker in a lab, stumbled upon what would become the first synthetic dye. “As an 18-year-old laboratory assistant, Perkin was cleaning out dark muck from a beaker after a failed experiment, when
Completed in 1928, Henry Ford’s River Rouge plant was a marvel of its age. It was almost 100% vertically integrated, even producing its own steel, and by the 1930s over 100,000 employees worked there, producing nearly every component for the cars that Ford built. It was, at the time, considered to be a key advantage.
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If you are an entrepreneur, you will constantly here things like: “That can’t be done.” “That won’t work.” “That isn’t the way that things work in our industry.” It is really difficult sometimes to see if you have an bad business idea, or just a business idea that is unconventional or not yet understood. Giving
