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Good ol General Electric
Washing Machines
Refrigerators
Electric Stoves (before they were cool)
Helicopter Front-mounted Machine Guns
Shielded Nuclear Plane and Sub Maintenance Vehicles
Sure, they looked dumb and weren't very spacious, but I guarantee you some stuff they built in the 50s are still seeing heavy use today.
And then Jack Welch entered the scene and destroyed the company and also hundreds of thousands of lives
In the words of Alec Baldwin: "You've got to shoot your shot."
You right
And somehow is the idol of every MBA exec.