#69 Charles Goodyear: An Inventor's Obsession and the Struggle for a Rubber Monopoly

What I learned from reading The Goodyear Story: An Inventor's Obsession and The Struggle For A Rubber Monopoly by Richard Korman.

An obsessive quest to find the recipe for rubber (0:01)

Charles Goodyear epitomized the spirit of the upstart American technologists (6:15)

the early life of Goodyear's family (20:10)

coming up with the idea for a domestic made only hardware store (29:00)

a crushing failure + debtor's prison (35:20)

accidentally finding his life's work (38:18)

optimism + positive mental attitude (44:30)

Patent #3633 (1:03:30)

why Charles did what he did (1:11:30)

—

“I have listened to every episode released and look forward to every episode that comes out. The only criticism I would have is that after each podcast I usually want to buy the book because I am interested so my poor wallet suffers. ” — Gareth

Be like Gareth. Buy a book: All the books featured on Founders Podcast