From Dorris Motor Co. to Biotech Startups, A Building’s History of Entrepreneurship

One prove-it moment stood between George Preston Dorris and his very own, world-changing startup. According to a 1977 article by Nelson Metz in St Louis Commerce, he just had to haul a piano around St. Louis without a car breakdown to earn continued financial backing from his principal investor, Jesse French. Haul a piano, get …