Best-of: William Cohan on GE’s Legacy

Before the mega-cap tech giants, there was General Electric. William D. Cohan is a Founding Partner of Puck and the author of “Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon.” Cohan joined Ricky Mulvey to discuss: - Jack Welch, and the religion of earnings consistency. - The mythology behind General Electric’s birth. -General Electric’s “time of death”. - Why Cohan believes a combination between Warner Brothers Discovery and NBCUniversal is “inevitable.” Host: Ricky Mulvey Guest: William D. Cohan Engineer: Dan Boyd, Rick Engdahl, Tim Sparks, Annie Franks Companies discussed: GE, DIS, WBD, CMCSA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices