Shane Parrish
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20,679 appearances
49 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 15 Sep
Shane Parrish’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Most diseases, he had realized, had no known cure, and almost no one in America was trying to find one.
Here was a whole field nobody had organized, a great open territory of human suffering with no organization on it yet.
It was the chaotic oil regions all over again, and Gates knew exactly who to bring to it.
So together they built a foundation the way Rockefeller had built the oil refinery.
Hire the best people alive and then leave them alone.
Build the system and measure the results.
The first piece was a university.
In 1889, even while Ohio's lawyers had started circling, Rockefeller had begun pouring money into a new university in Chicago.
It opened in October 1892 in the thick of the Standard Oil legal battle with no ceremony.
It did not have the Rockefeller name all over the door, and that was on purpose.
What it did have was a faculty so strong that the school entered the front rank of American universities on its very first morning.
He would end up putting $35 million into the University of Chicago over his lifetime.
The students knew exactly who their silent founder was.
They sang a song on campus that began, there was a man sent from God whose name was John.
The next piece was the body.
In 1901, he founded the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York, the first American institution devoted purely to discovering the causes of diseases.
It was the answer to the open field Gates had found in the textbook.
The year after, more education.
In 1902 came the General Education Board, founded with a million dollars of seed money and aimed at schools of the American South.
Within eight years, its money had helped bring 800 southern high schools into existence.
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