Henry Singleton was a remarkable man with an unusual background for a CEO.
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It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of singleton, henry, companies, including: A world-class mathematician who enjoyed playing chess blindfolded, he had programmed MIT's first computer while earning a doctorate in electrical engineering.
Key takeaways
01During World War II, he developed technology that allowed allied ships to avoid radar detection, and in the 1950s, he created a guidance system that is still in use in most militar
02All of that before he founded the conglomerate Teledyne in the early 1960s and became one of history's greatest CEOs
03actually Charlie Munger said that Singleton's financial returns were a mile higher than anyone else's that they were utterly ridiculous that's a direct quote from Munger CEOs need
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