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0 pointsty68531y ago0 comments

Ghosn was trained as an engineer at École des Mines de Paris after a humble background in the 3rd world including continual sickness from unsanitary waterwater. He worked from the bottom up in R&D at Michelin and did the impossible turning it around during hyperinflation period in Brazil.

By all estimations he's a genius with as good of chops as anyone could ask for his responsibilities, with a unique set of citizenship, connections, and multilingualism to go with it. Even his escape from Japan was just stunningly executed and the perfect selection of professionals with technical competence to pull it off.

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namdnay1y ago

He actually did X-Mines, (École polytechnique then detached to Mines), which means he was in the dozen top science students of his year in France

hmmm-i-wonder1y ago

A genius at some things certainly. I don't know enough to judge his early successes but his more recent ones seem to have a theme of constant consolidation and mergers with clear short term benefits but medium and long term shaky outcomes. Then again that's the trend of all markets the last few decades.

Oh and financial fraud appears to be one of the things he was good at based on the allegations from Nissan and Renault among others.

germinalphrase1y ago

“Even his escape from Japan was just stunningly executed and the perfect selection of professionals with technical competence to pull it off.”

I’m only generally aware of the series of events here. Any good write ups?

rwmj1y ago

There's a good BBC documentary if you're able to find it. The original source was: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000xw3j

7thpower1y ago

https://www.wsj.com/articles/carlos-ghosn-escape-japan-priva...

There is a series on Apple as well.

hengheng1y ago

MotorTrend's "The InEVitable" podcast has an episode with the WSJ guy that is a lot longer and while less information-dense, it is more colorful and still gets the story across pretty comprehensively.

https://pca.st/episode/20821dad-77e6-4e04-a97c-969661953c77

monkeydust1y ago

Can highly recommend the Apple series, was a great documentary.

csomar1y ago

There is a good netflix series about it.

raverbashing1y ago

He's certainly known for thinking outside the box. (but not always ;) )

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