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357. Can an Industrial Giant Become a Tech Darling?

Freakonomics Radio
Freakonomics Radio
Episode • Nov 8, 2018 • 54m

The Ford Motor Company is ditching its legacy sedans, doubling down on trucks, and trying to steer its stock price out of a long skid. But C.E.O. Jim Hackett has even bigger plans: to turn a century-old automaker into the nucleus of a “transportation operating system.” Is Hackett just whistling past the graveyard, or does he see what others can’t?