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Resource Hubs: For more on founder-driven companies and the families behind them, see Growth List’s coverage of the largest private companies in America, multigenerational family businesses, and recently funded startups backed by founder capital rather than venture money. In 1966, Forrest Mars Sr. agreed to a single sit-down interview with Candy Industry & Confectioner’s Journal. … Read more

Asa Candler walked into a Fulton County, Georgia courthouse in 1888 and within five years he had spent roughly $2,300 buying out every remaining claim to the formula a morphine-addicted pharmacist named John Pemberton had cooked up in a brass kettle in his Atlanta backyard. Candler didn’t care much about the syrup. He cared about … Read more

Mervin Kelly, an executive who ran Bell Labs during the post-war era, made researchers walk to lunch. The dining room sat at the far end of a long corridor in Murray Hill, New Jersey, and the route was deliberate. A solid-state physicist heading for coffee would pass a metallurgist, a vacuum-tube engineer, a topologist working … Read more

🗺 Part of the Growth List Startup Lists Collection All Startup Lists | By Funding Stage | Sales Outreach | Startup Intelligence Richard Whitcomb, a NASA aerodynamicist working at Langley Research Center in Virginia, published a technical note in 1976 with the unglamorous title A design approach and selected wind-tunnel results at high subsonic speeds … Read more