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How Henry Singleton Worked
- ▶ 26:14 David Senra Henry replied, I'm trying to create another GE, which explains why Henry's choices of companies to acquire gradually came more and more diverse.
The Life Story of Akio Morita: Founder of Sony
- ▶ 18:05 David Senra They had a general, uh, products of general electric from Westinghouse.
How The Sun Rose On Silicon Valley: Bob Noyce (Founder of Intel)
- ▶ 22:21 David Senra So it says a few well-known electronics firms were already here, General Electric and IBM, as well as a company that started up locally, Hewlett Packard.
How To Lose A Few Billion Dollars: The Life Story of Samuel Insull
- ▶ 0:33 David Senra That he more than any other man was responsible for founding the business of centralized electric supply that he organized the Edison general electric company now known as GE.
- ▶ 28:47 David Senra So this is where he drops him into the company that eventually becomes, ah, General Electric.
- ▶ 39:42 David Senra And I don't think they wrote this letter thinking that they would get him because at the time he's running general electric, that's a fifty million dollar company. 3 times in the scene
The Autobiography of Ted Turner
- ▶ 50:44 David Senra And so he keeps trying to merge Turner broadcasting with, this is, this is again, um, just how, how this whole thing ends, uh, ends up when he tries to merge later on with, uh, GE 2 times in the scene
The World's Great Family Dynasties: Rockefeller, Rothschild, Morgan, & Toyada
- ▶ 34:26 David Senra It was not an accident that he had formed the General Electric Company.
David Packard (Founder of HP)
- ▶ 13:08 David Senra It says our plans were set aside when I received a job offer from general electric, the country was then in the throes of the great depression and jobs were scarce. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:50 David Senra So he's on like a break from General Electric. 4 times in the scene
The Biography of Bill Gates
- ▶ 3:44 David Senra So it says the PDP-X Lakeside used was owned by General Electric, which billed Lakeside for computer time. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Thomas Edison
- ▶ 55:58 David Senra That there was a term for it, that term was Morganized, and that is the beginning of General Electric.
- ▶ 57:46 David Senra And it's a big struggle, and then he winds up leaving, and getting kind of upset, and selling all his GA stock later on, and then going and doing mining, and all this other stuff that he does the rest of his life, right?