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That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.

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Pete du Pont
Age: 86 †
Born: 1935
Born: January 22
Died: 2021
Died: May 8
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Wilmington
Delaware
Pierre S. du Pont IV
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