He didn’t build a company. He didn’t scale a startup. He didn’t even run a team.
But in 1937, a 27-year-old economist named Ronald Coase gave the world something more enduring: the reason companies exist.
He wrote one essay, “The Nature of the Firm,” that changed ho…
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