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Meet Timothy Dexter, the barely literate leather worker who became America's most accidentally successful entrepreneur. From shipping warming pans to the tropics to selling coal to Newcastle, discover how this 18th-century fool defied every business rule and somehow turned spectacular mistakes into massive fortunes. The ultimate proof that sometimes the best business sense is no business sense at all.
Meet Timothy Dexter, the barely literate leather worker who became America's most accidentally successful entrepreneur. From shipping warming pans to the tropics to selling coal to Newcastle, discover how this 18th-century fool defied every business rule and somehow turned spectacular mistakes into massive fortunes. The ultimate proof that sometimes the best business sense is no business sense at all.