Ed Whitacre, Part Two Fixing the “Fabric of the United States”
In this episode: How did the White House persuade Ed Whitacre to help save General Motors, and what was the personal reason he agreed to take the job? How did he catapult GM from bankruptcy to a billion-dollar profit powerhouse within months? And which GM model sells like hotcakes in China as a luxury vehicle? Kent and Ed muse about old college pals, and Kent admits to giving one notable classmate—the late great singer, John Deutschendorf (you’ll know who it is)—some patently bad advice.