Short-isode: "The Worst Business Deal In American History"
SEP 21, 202534 MIN
Short-isode: "The Worst Business Deal In American History"
SEP 21, 202534 MIN
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<p>Imagine you're the person that could have bought Amazon stock for $18.00 per share or maybe Microsoft at $21 per share, better still, Facebook, Coca-Cola, and Apple at their initial public offerings. Now, imagine you could have bought into any of those kinds of PHENOMENALLY profitable companies BEFORE they went public. Finally, imagine you did just that, got in on the ground floor, and still...somehow...managed to come out on the losing end.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is that story.</p><p><strong>GET THE BOOK FROM AMAZON: </strong><a href="https://amzn.to/4napY21" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">The Best of The Best of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader</a></p><p><strong>GET THE BOOK FROM AN INDEPENDENT BOOK SELLER: </strong><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/114282/9781607106838" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><strong>The Best of The Best of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader</strong></a></p><p><strong>BECOME AN Elton Reads A Book A Week CONTRIBUTOR HERE:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/eltonreadsabookaweek" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Elton Reads A Book A Week Patreon</a></p><p><a href="https://anchor.fm/elton-reads-a-book-a-week" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tips!</a></p><p><a href="https://linktr.ee/EltonReadsABookAWeek" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">SOCIAL MEDIA!</a> <a href="https://linktr.ee/EltonReadsABookAWeek" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">This is the LINK TREE!</a></p><p>EMAIL: [email protected]</p><p><em>The following section is reserved for the people, places, things, and more that Elton probably offended in this episode--</em></p><p><strong>THE APOLOGIES SECTION:</strong> Uncle John, patient people, people that like longer episodes, and listeners like you.</p><p><br /></p><p><strong>THANKS:</strong></p><p><strong>Thank you for listening and sharing this podcast with others. It means a lot. I appreciate it, sincerely.</strong></p><p>A special thanks to Diedrich Bader, Jenna Fischer, and Steve Guttenburg for all their inspiration.</p><p><br /></p><p>[business, worst deal, American history, history, comedy, podcast, funny, company, corporations, corporate history, Ford, Model T, Daisy, bb gun, Henry Ford, business deal, near miss, hindsight]</p>
![<p>Imagine you're the person that could have bought Amazon stock for $18.00 per share or maybe Microsoft at $21 per share, better still, Facebook, Coca-Cola, and Apple at their initial public offerings. Now, imagine you could have bought into any of those kinds of PHENOMENALLY profitable companies BEFORE they went public. Finally, imagine you did just that, got in on the ground floor, and still...somehow...managed to come out on the losing end.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is that story.</p><p><strong>GET THE BOOK FROM AMAZON: </strong><a href="https://amzn.to/4napY21" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">The Best of The Best of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader</a></p><p><strong>GET THE BOOK FROM AN INDEPENDENT BOOK SELLER: </strong><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/114282/9781607106838" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><strong>The Best of The Best of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader</strong></a></p><p><strong>BECOME AN Elton Reads A Book A Week CONTRIBUTOR HERE:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/eltonreadsabookaweek" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Elton Reads A Book A Week Patreon</a></p><p><a href="https://anchor.fm/elton-reads-a-book-a-week" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tips!</a></p><p><a href="https://linktr.ee/EltonReadsABookAWeek" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">SOCIAL MEDIA!</a> <a href="https://linktr.ee/EltonReadsABookAWeek" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">This is the LINK TREE!</a></p><p>EMAIL: eltonreadsabookaweek@gmail.com</p><p><em>The following section is reserved for the people, places, things, and more that Elton probably offended in this episode--</em></p><p><strong>THE APOLOGIES SECTION:</strong> Uncle John, patient people, people that like longer episodes, and listeners like you.</p><p><br /></p><p><strong>THANKS:</strong></p><p><strong>Thank you for listening and sharing this podcast with others. It means a lot. I appreciate it, sincerely.</strong></p><p>A special thanks to Diedrich Bader, Jenna Fischer, and Steve Guttenburg for all their inspiration.</p><p><br /></p><p>[business, worst deal, American history, history, comedy, podcast, funny, company, corporations, corporate history, Ford, Model T, Daisy, bb gun, Henry Ford, business deal, near miss, hindsight]</p>](https://us-central1-podcastguru-217d6.cloudfunctions.net/gcf_get_image?image_url=https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Podcasts221/v4/1b/0f/bb/1b0fbb89-bd44-1321-c44c-4d84cb80bdef/mza_3886312805329499881.jpg/600x600bb.jpg&width=300&height=300&api_key=xqFmUFX5BHLBTA)
