The Bold Ones Win

We lost Ted Turner, a patron saint of Tedium, just as an entrepreneur made an audacious Turner-style bet. What can we learn from that?This week, word came out that the CEO of a name-brand, heavily memed company was trying to do something completely audacious.Also, Ted Turner, the guy who arguably invented that trick and arguably did it better than possibly anyone else of his generation, just died.It’s hard not to want to compare the left-field tactics of Ryan Cohen, the CEO of GameStop, founder of Chewy, and apparent suitor of eBay, to what Turner did throughout his long, storied, crazy-like-a-fox career. There’s a modest cult of personality around Cohen; I have a self-contained cult of personality around Turner, who is one of my favorite business leaders of the modern era.I described Turner way back in 2015 as the Steve Jobs of television, and it’s a reputation that sticks. Like Jobs, he faced his share of boardroom drama, and took bold swings that everyone thought were out there at…