In this episode, we explore the thirteen colonies were corporate startups. So, ah, picture this. It's 1758. A young George Washington is just, he desperately wants to win this local election for the House of Burgesses down in Virginia. And, you know, so he does what literally any self -respecting founding father would do. He goes out and buys... 39 gallons of rum. Naturally. Naturally. He throws this massive, just completely chaotic party for the local voters. And he wins the election by an absolute landslide. It's a great story. It really is. And, you know, welcome to the deep dive, everyone, because today we are taking you way past those traditional textbook paintings, you know, like the ones with the perfectly orchestrated Symphony of Men and pristine powdered wigs standing in those tidy little rows exactly like they're all just reading from the  ...