Wiggins: Guinness was the hottest IPO of the late 19th century
Chris Wiggins · A Conversation with Chris Wiggins - Author of "How Data Happened" · May 31, 2023 · at 6:03
Chris Wiggins, Columbia professor and Chief Data Scientist at The New York Times, discusses the historical intersection of commercial enterprise and early statistics.
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“The, that chapter opens up with the hottest IPO in the late 19th century, which was Guinness. So Guinness, the beer company, IPO'd in late 1800, and like literally people were breaking the doors down to try to get on that, get in on that IPO.”
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