Billy Durant. GM was founded by a gambler. Got thrown off the board, started an independent automaker named after a Frenchman (Chevrolet) and used that company to leverage his way back into GM.
In my opinion, the best outcome for the US, GM and the auto industry as a whole is a chapter 11 Bk, reorganization, stop returning phone calls from the unions and start building cars.
well i would just add one thing , remove all the people responsible for current car designs
all of them