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Benjamin Franklin
Born in Boston in 1706, the fifteenth child of a candle maker. Benjamin Franklin was apprenticed to his brother's print shop at twelve and struck out alone for Philadelphia at seventeen. He made his fortune in the printing trade and published Poor Richard's Almanack for 25 years, building a prototype of the media business. After retiring from operations at 42, he pivoted to science, diplomacy, and nation-building — the polymath who stands at the origin of America's entrepreneurial spirit.
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