the top of the list of potential new board members was Larry Culp, the former CEO of Danaher Corporation, a mini-GE-like conglomerate based in Washington, DC, that was formed in the 1980s by the Rales brothers, Mitch and Steven. The Rales brothers became billionaires by buying and selling a portfolio of seemingly mundane industrial companies and then squeezing more profit from them. Danaher had more or less become a publicly traded, industrial-focused leveraged-buyout firm.
