Thomas Gibbons person
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“and killing innovation. Good point. We're going to be talking a lot about that theme going forward. Good question, though. Here we are. He embraces the steamboat technology. He's going fast. He's working for a ferry entrepreneur by the name…”
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and killing innovation. Good point. We're going to be talking a lot about that theme going forward. Good question, though. Here we are. He embraces the steamboat technology. He's going fast. He's working for a ferry entrepreneur by the name…
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which is kind of a, well, at this time, it's the highest rank in the Navy, but there was kind of a, you'd use it in commercial enterprises and use it at yacht clubs. The head of the yacht club was the Commodore, but he got that nickname and…
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So they granted a license to Ogden to run it. Well, under Cornelius Vanderbilt's guidance, they undercut the prices. Gibbons and Ogden, which is a famous Supreme Court case, goes to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court holds that the st…