This April 1, 000 young entrepreneurs will pack a chartered cruise ship in Miami for a three-day, invite-only conference featuring Richard Branson, Peter Thiel, Russell Simmons and loads of other name-drop-worthy guests.
His cause was peace not a bad cause, but Ford pursued it with his usual black-and-white view of the world. (Every question had only one possible point of view: his own.) In December 1915 he chartered a ship to Europe to persuade the belligerents to lay down their arms.