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    The Big Picture

    Mar 27, 2020 3 minutes
    Angus MacKenzie

    Daimler may have invented the automobile, and Ford may have invented the automobile factory, but General Motors invented the modern automobile company. When GM was founded in 1908, there were 253 automakers in the United States, all with entrepreneurs and engineers, dollar-men and dreamers, vying to make their fortunes with a technology that was going to change the world.

    Henry Ford was the Bill Gates of the era, quick to grasp the

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