Fear-Setting: How Entrepreneurs Overcome Fear

On August 12, 1819, the Essex—an 87 ft, 238-ton whaleship—left Nantucket, Massachusetts on what was expected to be a three-year voyage to a whaling ground off the west coast of South America. [1] It wouldn’t return. On November 20, 1820, after 15 months at sea, an 80-ton sperm whale (reportedly 85 feet long) ripped a […]

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