RIP Sergio Marchionne!

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Marchionne took over F1 Ferrari in the fall of 2014 and promptly signed Sebastian Vettel.

 
Considering the prestige he brought to Canada, is Marchionne a member of The Order of Canada?

 
He'll be missed, it made me proud that Ferrari had a Canadian connection and he did take Fiat out of the perpetual red.

 
He was a talent for sure in the automotive world. When I was in Italy a couple of years ago, when talking to locals and I told them I was Canadian they always brought up Marchionne and his Canadian background. The guy will be missed.

The guy goes in for shoulder surgery and winds up dead. That's fucked up, but not totally surprising as I've personally known 3 people who went into the hospital for surgery and died. Two of those 3 were minor surgery, one being day surgery. Moral of the story, if you need to go under the knife, be afraid, be very afraid.

Thing is Von, I doubt heads will roll. Doctors are worse than cops when it comes to sticking together.
 
John Elkann's father Gianni Agnelli had Vittorio Valetta running Fiat after his father's death in 1945. He didn't assume control of the company until 1966. Marchionne was Elkann's Valetta, leaving him time to build up his holding company, among the properties being The Economist. Gianni bought a stake in Ferrari in 1969, taking control of the company when Enzo Ferrari's health started to fail in 1986. Juventus Football Club has been an Agnelli property since 1929.

Elkann (far right) with Juventus Chairman Andrea Agnelli and Marchionne.

 
John Elkann has a working relationship with Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder is a board member of The Economist. A rumour circulated that the Agnelli's put up seed money to get Amazon off the ground, I can't verify that. Exor Inc. is officially a Dutch Holding Company, considering how chaotic Italian politics is I can't blame Gianni for taking that step.

 
My father worked for an Agnelli subsidiary and was a Juventus fan for life. The company that hired him in Toronto was a branch of ITT. When Gianni Agnelli moved the holding company to Holland, Fiat Inc. became New Holland. The name given to Australia by Dutch explorer Abel Tansman. Ford which bought at stake in Fiat in the 80's retains the New Holland name, which spawned Exor NV.

https://www.ft.com/content/ba2b8b4a-12cb-11e7-80f4-13e067d5072c
 
james t kirk said:
He was a talent for sure in the automotive world. When I was in Italy a couple of years ago, when talking to locals and I told them I was Canadian they always brought up Marchionne and his Canadian background. The guy will be missed.

The guy goes in for shoulder surgery and winds up dead. That's fucked up, but not totally surprising as I've personally known 3 people who went into the hospital for surgery and died. Two of those 3 were minor surgery, one being day surgery. Moral of the story, if you need to go under the knife, be afraid, be very afraid.

Thing is Von, I doubt heads will roll. Doctors are worse than cops when it comes to sticking together.
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Sorry to hear about the loss of your friends. Obviously there's risks associated with any surgery, but considering the number of operations performed on a daily basis, for the most part the risks are pretty low.
 
There is a GREAT documentary on HBO (right now in fact) about Gianni Agnelli.

He led quite the life. He was extremely intelligent, but also an unabashed almost stereotypical Italian playboy. (And a snappy dresser too.) Rumoured to have bedded Jackie Kennedy when she was married to JFK.

 
GameBoy27 said:
Sorry to hear about the loss of your friends. Obviously there's risks associated with any surgery, but considering the number of operations performed on a daily basis, for the most part the risks are pretty low.
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I have a bridge for sale over the Don River if you'd like to take a gander.

Way more people die from medical screw ups than you'd care to imagine.

Research suggests that about 70,000 patients a year experience preventable, serious injury as a result of treatments. More shocking, a landmark study published a decade ago estimated that as many as 23,000 Canadian adults die annually because of preventable “adverse events” in acute-care hospitals alone.

Link:

https://nationalpost.com/health/ins...re-is-a-lot-of-lying-theres-a-lot-of-cover-up

or here:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/medical-errors-killing-up-to-24-000-canadians-a-year-1.514758

Note, the National Post and CBC are not whack job conspiracy theory websites.

In the case of my one friend who died due to a medical mistake, she contracted sepsis as a result of surgery. Relatively minor procedure, ended up dead.

A very close friend of min works in IT consulting in the medical industry. He sees a lot. He will be the first to tell you how bad it is when it comes to medical screw ups.
 
It's almost impossible to imagine that a former Cataldi's produce boy would eventually become a vaunted manager of a global consortium. And now Sergio is gone, I'm sad.

Maybe this will cheer me up:

 
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