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Daniel K. Ludwig, the largest non-public ship owner at the end of World War I with over 100 ships, wrote off $500 million on his ambitious Amazon River pulp project in his later years, but called it a success because 'we did it'—valuing the attempt and ambition itself over the financial outcome.

Thomas Edison exemplifies the innovator rather than the inventor because he did not necessarily come up with original ideas but instead took other people's ideas and turned them into practical propositions, and he himself captured this as 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

Jim Senegal, founder of Costco, credits everything he knows to Sol Price, founder of Price Club, whom he worked for before founding Costco; Costco later acquired Price Club.

Tech Shot's business model is to function as a 'tech engine' generating new technologies and then spinning off successful ones into separate companies, similar to Levi-Strauss in the 1800s selling pickaxes to miners rather than panning for gold themselves.