69 Charles Goodyear: An Inventor's Obsession and the Struggle for a Rubber Monopoly — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2019-04-28
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“It is in, uh, England, and it's where everybody, uh, is gathering together to show off like, uh, the products they make…”
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Focus
“The good part is he was solely focused on making inventions that he thought was for the betterment of the world.”
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People
“All the hardware stores, you'd go in and you'd inevitably be giving people you hate, or the people they hate at the…”
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Persistence
“About three years before he, he discovers a process and about- Nine years before he's granted the patent.”
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Capital
“And anytime that Goodyear ran out of money, which was all the time, he kept just selling the most valuable thing he…”
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