This is off topic but for those of you who are not chemists I wanted to call your attention to Alfred Bader, the guy who founded Aldrich. For commercial and academic organic and medicinal chemistry labs all over the US, Aldrich was (and is) the go to source for starting materials. The offerings are enormous and buying from Aldrich saves a huge amount of time that would otherwise be used making starting materials from the relatively few basic chemicals that are available due to industrial demand. Bader made Aldrich the force that it is.
Bader tells the story that he founded Aldrich because Eastman Kodak, which was the then dominant source of varied organic reagents, was simply not interested in the 100 gm to 1 kg market for fine chemicals. They serviced customers poorly and were slow to add offerings that new methods in J Org Chem and elsewhere required. Bader followed the literature and introduced new reagents quickly after they were described. He's a hero to organic chemistry research, IMO. The Sigma-Aldrich merger eventually forced Bader out and he turned his fine art hobby into a fine art business. He has a gallery in Milwaukee with some remarkable pieces.