2005
Sergio Marchionne ended Fiat's partnership with General Motors in a deal in which GM paid Fiat $2 billion.
“Sergio gets them out of the partnership and engineers GM paying $2 billion to fiat in order to end the partnership.”
Topic
General Motors
5 facts from 4 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
Undated
Before founding General Motors, Billy Durant built one of the most successful horse-carriage manufacturers.
“He created one of the most successful horse carriage manufacturing companies.”
Undated
John Collison states that Cruise, co-founded by Kyle Vogt, was acquired by General Motors.
“You co-founded Cruise, which was acquired by General Motors. Is self-driving the most capital-intensive pre-revenue product ever?”
Undated
Kyle Vogt says he justified selling Cruise because the buyer was then North America's largest automaker.
“I convinced myself when selling Cruise that at the time it was North America's largest automaker.”
Undated
Marc Andreessen said Alfred Sloan, who built General Motors, wrote an influential management book that Intel's Andy Grove learned from.
“Alfred Sloan famously wrote a book that people like Andy Grove learned from that basically said, here's how you build a large multinational, multi-product line industrial company.”
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