It Was a Win/Win Deal. So of Course They Rejected It. (opens in new tab)

On November 6, 1906, an American entrepreneur named Augustus E. Staley incorporated his cornstarch manufacturing business in Decatur, Illinois— the first city that Abraham Lincoln came to when he first moved to Illinois at the young age of 21. Staley’s A.E. Staley Manufacturing Company made cornstarch… which is hardly sexy by modern business standards. But […]