History

In 1908 Henry Ford’s Model T really introduced and marked the beginning of the age of mass transportation on a scale previously unprecedented. Affordable, easy to operate compared to other cars at the time and one of the first cars meant to be mass produced from the ground up

Hard to understand how impactful it was

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Another interesting thing was it was one of the first mass-produced cars in the world. Mass-produce meant that a bunch of individuals would work as a team producing one part over and over again in a row. All these parts together would come together and be assembled in an assembly line together. This was how it worked.

The problem was that this was quite monotonous. And so after a while many of the workers started quitting in the Tran rate was really high. So Henry Ford actually did something that was unprecedented. He raise the minimum wage for $5/hr which at the time was completely unheard of. For context, one of his cars cost $280

Strategically doubling his wage to five dollars an hour for all his employees in 1914 really changed the approach to how much  employees should be paid, eventually his employees themselves would be purchasers of the cars that they were producing themselves; many did 

it kick started the car having middle class

It’s hard to imagine a world where freeways didn’t exist, highways didn’t exist, gas stations didn’t exist, suburbia especially in the United States didn’t exist. Los Angeles was mostly a railway city. But that was the world in 1908 - it was very different and not meant for or friendly for cars

I have deep prospect for those who to take a new innovation and work really hard to make affordable for the broader population. Henry Ford was a master in this. He offered at first only the basic car with no amenities and only one color (black). Maybe we would call it a minimal viable product.

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Model-T: Interchangeable, “hackable” parts. 
A “maker platform” in the form of a tinker-able Model-T. 

Counterpoint: Rolls  Royce. 

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As I pulled into the gas station today, I was imagining all the hate on cars at the time: “where will we put the fuel they need to run on?! There are very few roads — where will people drive? People have everything they need right here in town — why would they need to go anywhere on their own?!”

The state of democratized access 

Smartphones - IPhone 🧌 
Internet - Google search ☠️ 
Laptops and Computers- Apple
Open Source Software 
Streaming Services ☠️ 
E-readers  🪦 
Platforms Twitter 🐸 ☠️ 
Renewables - No killer product
3D Printing - No killer product
Blockchain - No killer product

It never ceases to amaze.

Must be crazier for the 100 year olds who literally watched this transformation in the Industrial Revolution from then to now.

Excellent points. It not only changed everything about business and work, but also created a whole new culture and opportunity for travel and leisure. No more loading up the horses and wagon. Now we could easily get to that picnic in the countryside without so much risk of peril (after the roads shaped up, of course).