Business biographies, read closely
Prime Movers is an archive of business biographies, tycoon histories, and operator memoirs. It holds translated volumes that barely exist in English. Each book is read closely and broken into exact, cited passages.
Summaries of these books are everywhere. The books themselves are hard to find, especially in translation. So the archive works from the text: every claim on a dossier links to the passage it came from, quoted exactly. If the page says an operator controlled distribution before competitors noticed, it also shows you the sentence.
Citation standard
- Passages are quoted verbatim from the volume.
- Every dossier names its volume, author, and translator where one exists.
- Cross-book patterns are published only when the archive holds the passages that support them.
It is built for founders and operators making decisions about capital, distribution, pricing, and succession. The point is to read what the operator did.