Bragg built a mechanical blueberry harvester in the 1980s with his brother and a mechanic by observing existing machines in Maine and developing an improved version; he then made the design available to competing farmers rather than using it as a proprietary competitive advantage.
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“There have been all kinds of people trying to uh develop a mechanical harvester and my brother and a mechanic looked at some of these efforts that were done in Maine... and we made it available to the farmers that it's still the standard.”
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84-Year-Old Billionaire: How I Turned a Small Blueberry Business into a Global Empire | John Bragg— The Knowledge Project PodcastCreated: 8/10/2026, 11:30:22 PM
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