by Matthew Josephson and Burton W. Folsom Jr. 

It helps to look to history to figure out today. If you want to understand what's going on in the tech industry right now, one of the few parallels is the Gilded Age - late 1800s to early 1900s America. Things were as crazy back then as they are today and both these books give interesting insights into the pandemonium wrought by the industrial revolution.

From steamships to railroads to oil fields, these barons made millions, even billions, off the backs of the new technologies. What conclusions can we draw? How best to move forward? The ideas in these books are often surprising and, to me, sometimes counter-intuitive.

Thanks for listening.

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