Founders

What I learned from reading The Dodge Brothers: The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy by Charles Hyde.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----This is the story of two small town machinists who became enormously successful automobile manufacturers in the early years of the auto industry [0:01]Early life and first jobs [3:02]Moving to Detroit: Arriving at the right place, at the right time, with the right skill set [6:28]Horace Dodge is a gifted engineer like Henry Royce (Founders #81) was + Inventors and bicycle manufacturers [12:00]How The Dodge Brothers first described their business [16:40]Doing work for Ransom Olds, Founder of Oldsmobile [18:20]Crucial decisions in the early days of the company [23:33]In a gold rush don't dig for gold. Sell pick axes [24:44]The Dodge Brothers almost bankrupted Ford for lack of payment [28:22]The Dodge Brothers got very rich off of Henry Ford [33:28]Why and how the Dodge Brothers built their own