Summary of Spencer E. Ante's Creative Capital

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

Book Preview: #1 In the spring of 1913, 13-year-old Georges Doriot ran home from school. He had excelled at his classes, and had the certificate to prove it. His father, however, was unimpressed.

#2 When Auguste was discharged from the French Army in the fall of 1889, he was a young and ambitious man who had great expectations. However, he had to spend five years in the prime of his youth serving in the military.

#3 Auguste was born on October 24, 1863, in Sainte-Suzanne, a village in the Franche-Comte province about a dozen miles northwest of Valentigney. He was fifteen when he was recruited into the Army, and after five years he returned to the Peugeot Company.

#4 The Peugeot brothers were fortunate in that their family business was large and profitable enough to finance their expansion into new industries. In the nineteenth century, financial markets were crude and entrepreneurs had a difficult time raising money for new ventures.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Feb 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669348580

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

In the spring of 1913, 13-year-old Georges Doriot ran home from school. He had excelled at his classes, and had the certificate to prove it. His father, however, was unimpressed.

#2

When Auguste was discharged from the French Army in the fall of 1889, he was a young and ambitious man who had great expectations. However, he had to spend five years in the prime of his youth serving in the military.

#3

Auguste was born on October 24, 1863, in Sainte-Suzanne, a village in the Franche-Comte province about a dozen miles northwest of Valentigney. He was fifteen when he was recruited into the Army, and after five years he returned to the Peugeot Company.

#4

The Peugeot brothers were fortunate in that their family business was large and profitable enough to finance their expansion into new industries. In the nineteenth century, financial markets were crude and entrepreneurs had a difficult time raising money for new ventures.

#5

The first financial institutions to provide funding for groundbreaking enterprises were American. The first modern communications technology, the telegraph, was financed by a small group of wealthy investors.

#6

The telephone was a new invention that was patented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. It was a monopoly owned by Bell Telephone Company, and their competitor, Western Union, began manufacturing a competing telephone that incorporated the inventions of Thomas Edison and other inventors.

#7

In the early 1880s, Armand first pushed the family into bicycle manufacturing. Later in the decade, he teamed up with engineer Leon Serpollet and built a steam-powered tricycle. In 1889, he introduced his invention at the World’s Fair in Paris.

#8

The Paris-Brest record was set by Rigoulot and Doriot, who drove from Valentigney to Paris in a Type 3 car. They were attempting a fifteen-hundred-mile journey across a much more varied and challenging expanse of terrain.

#9

The race between the Paris and Brest racers was filled with many comic moments that illustrated the radical and frightening nature of their new machine.

#10

In 1894, Pierre Giffard and