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🗓️ 9 June 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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0:00.0 | When you can't quite get the angle, take hands-free selfies with the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5, |
0:05.2 | stand it up, step back, and your photos are also synced to your Chromebook, ready to edit. |
0:10.8 | The new Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Chromebook, available on Vodafone. |
0:18.8 | It's Rico Daily, I'm Adam Clark Estus. There's this dream, some say it's a myth, |
0:25.5 | that America is a place where anything is possible, whether it's on the Western Frontier |
0:30.0 | or the world of business where anyone can strike it rich. It's because Americans are |
0:34.3 | historically champions of rugged individualism. So it makes sense that in the United States, |
0:39.6 | there's often an enduring obsession with the self-made man. But lately, there seems to be one |
0:45.5 | industry whose leaders get mythologized more than any other. When the biographers and historians |
0:51.2 | fight the history of the 20th century, Bill Gates is going to go down as the best businessman |
0:57.7 | of our century. Elon Musk is a lot like the kid in the common book whose fantasies turn into reality, |
1:04.4 | but not as a magician. He did it as an engineer. From a 17-year-old mother to a child |
1:10.2 | genius to valedictorian to McDonald's to hedge fund senior executive to online book salesman |
1:15.6 | to millionaire to billionaire, Jeff Bezos has shown that perseverance is king. |
1:20.1 | We've had very famous well-known business leaders before, tycoons, the railer tycoons, |
1:26.0 | John Rockefeller, Carnegie, JP Morgan, but they worked celebrities in the same way that these |
1:33.9 | tech celebrities are. That's Margaret O'Mara, a professor at the University of Washington, |
1:40.5 | and a historian of Silicon Valley. O'Mara has written about how tech tycoons are exceptional |
1:46.1 | in many ways, but their place is heroes in the public imagination may be overblown. |
1:51.9 | The reality is that innovation is a group endeavor. Close your eyes and think inventory, |
1:58.2 | and maybe it's a very singular thing, right? Think of Thomas Edison and his lab. |
2:04.4 | Well, Thomas Edison, just outside the frame of the picture of him in his lab, there were |
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