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A century ago, plucky entrepreneurs armed with vision and a healthy appetite for risk laid the foundation for Michigan’s rich 20th-century economy.
Could history be repeating itself? Because a byproduct of the fall and rise of Detroit’s automakers — and the evolving pull they exert over the the state’s economic life — is a refreshing reprise of the entrepreneurialism evoked by names like Ford and Durant, Dow and Kellogg, Gerber and Olds.
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