What does Bill Gates have in common with Piggly Wiggly? Well . . . it’s a bit of a stretch, but both are linked to the bestselling book Business Adventures, a collection of 1960s New Yorker essays written by John Brooks. Recently heralded by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett as the single best business book, Business Adventures brings to life in vivid fashion twelve timeless tales of corporate and financial life in America. Clarence Saunders, the founder of Piggly Wiggly, the first modern grocery store chain, is the fascinating subject of one of these case studies.
Famous for his life of grandeur, Saunders’s story is full of successes and failures. In the 1920s, he devised what is now called “the last great corner” on Wall Street. What is a corner? How did this scandal play out? To learn more, click through the presentation below. And, for the full story, check out Business Adventures!
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