Founders · Oct 10The Biography of Thomas Edison
Among the first labs to chase practical commercial uses of research, it produced the phonograph and the electric light work. The years from 1876 to 1881 were Edison's happiest, and its obsessive culture cost workers' families dearly.
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- Edison built Menlo Park so he could invent all day, free of business and manufacturing▶ 44:30Menlo Park produced the phonograph and the electric light work, and he later regretted leaving it.
- Edison's obsessive culture at Menlo Park cost families dearly, and Edison failed at balance▶ 47:55Senra warns that obsessive founders tend to over-optimize work to the detriment of personal life and need guardrails.
