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Feb 2024
26m 37s

Henry Ford’s Secret: The Untold Truth

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Henry Ford built a business empire, and completely revolutionized not just the car industry, but business as we know it. He pioneered assembly line production, the five day work week, and countless more innovations. But this is certainly not a straightforward success story. Henry Ford’s life is wrapped in controversy, failures, and obsessive genius. We’ll not only look at Henry Ford’s astonishing rise, but also his lesser known projects, like the time he tried to build his own weird American town called Fordlandia, in the heart of the Brazilian rainforest. We’ll also look at the very dark truth about Henry Ford, and why one of his biggest fans was Adolf Hitler. This is a business story of innovation and success - a brutal struggle for wealth and power. This is the shocking true story of Henry Ford, and the history of The Ford Motor Company.

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