FYI: Ben read The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World a few months ago and what struck him most about his story was not Edison’s unbelievable accomplishments and inventions, but the stories that paint him as a really bad person.
By all accounts, he could be a terrible in the way he treated his wife, family, and employees.
I’ve noticed a similar theme for some of history’s other great business minds as well. They often succeed despite the way they treat other people (or maybe because of it).
Ed Catmull, one of the founders of Pixar, described what it was like to work with Steve Jobs in his book Creativity, Inc:
Regards,
Ted
https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2018/11/if-you-want-to-be-happy/
