Launchpad Republic: A Book Review By Bob Morris

How “a dynamic entrepreneurial economy” has balanced ” the right to compete with property rights”

Consider the fact that most (if not all) of the current Fortune 500 companies in the U.S. were originally a startup and most (if not all) of their founders were entrepreneurs. In this book, Howard Wolk and John Landry provide an abundance of information and insights while exploring an historical period that extends from the colonial settlements through the current day, what they characterize as a “balancing act between rewarding builders and enabling challengers, often the same people.” This force, this entrepreneurial edge, “has been at the heart of the American entrepreneurial economy. It has been our internal combustion engine of progress.”