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Founders Notes: Henry Ford

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Forty Years With Henry Ford David Senra Okay, so that's an expert from the last chapter of the book that I'm going to talk to you about today, which is My Forty Years with Ford, and it was written by Charles Sorensen. That chapter, interestingly enough, is called Henry Ford's Greatest Failure, and it goes into great detail the tragedy that Charlie, as we're going to call him today, witnessed with the breaking down of the father-son relationship between Henry Ford and Edsel Ford. Before I jump into the book, as a reminder, this is the fourth book that I've read about Henry Ford and the fourth podcast that I've made about Henry Ford. So if you haven't done so already, you can learn more from Henry Ford by listening to Founders #9, #26, and #80. Okay, so I want to start with an introduction to Charlie. This is David L. Lewis writing in the introduction of this book. David worked at Ford for over a decade and is now a professor of business history. And so he says, "Charlie claimed to have known Henry Ford better than any man dead or alive. Henry Ford used to say Charlie could smell what he wanted." Summing up Charlie in 1970, the famous Aviator, Charles Lindbergh who came to know Charl

Forty Years With Henry Ford David Senra Okay, so that's an expert from the last chapter of the book that I'm going to talk to you about today, which is My Forty Years with Ford, and it was written by Charles Sorensen. That chapter, interestingly enough, is called Henry Ford's Greatest Failure, and it goes into great detail the tragedy that Charlie, as we're going to call him today, witnessed with the breaking down of the father-son relationship between Henry Ford and Edsel Ford. Before I jump into the book, as a reminder, this is the fourth book that I've read about Henry Ford and the…

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