seeking good reads on business and/as celebrity—sort of about the "personal brand" of it all but also the idea of the celebrity founder as avatar of brand

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@tim meta-study maybe? like i'm working on a podcast script about a company very much in founder-celeb thrall but understanding that as a generalized type would be more helpful than just 'what makes this girl boss special'

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@ingrid The book I'm thinking of is Randall Stross’s The Wizard of Menlo Park, which is about Edison, but specifically about the beginning of a particularly modern kind of industrialist/inventor celebrity that's detached from reality. There might be lessons there for how this all gets rolling

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