In 1893, Edison sold his stake in GE for a reported $1.5 million (around $430 million in today’s dollars). He was over the whole electricity thing. “I have a lot more new material on which to work,” he continued. He said all he cared about General Electric was to get “as large dividends as possible from such stock as I hold. I am not businessman enough to spend my time at that end of the concern.”
