William Patalon III, Author at WorthNet

William Patalon III

William (Bill) Patalon III is a contributing editor to WorthNet. He spent 20 years as an award-winning business journalist, and reported from Wall Street, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, Japan and China. Bill has interviewed such stalwarts as Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, former GE CEO John F. “Neutron Jack” Welch, aviation pioneer and LBO specialist Stanley Hiller Jr., and former U.S. President Richard M. Nixon. Bill’s the co-author of the Prentice Hall best-seller “Contrarian Investing: How to Buy and Sell When Others Won’t and Make Money Doing It,” with a foreword by investing icon Jim Rogers. And he’s the co-founder of Stock Picker’s Corner on BeeHiiv.

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Let’s talk about mega-millionaires John D. Rockefeller and Cornelius “The Commodore” Vanderbilt. Think of them as the Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos of their time, the richest of the rich during the Gilded Age, that two-decade stretch from the late 1870s to the late 1890s when America experienced massive growth, was modernized by such innovations […]

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