Shane Parrish
speaker
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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Father never said a word to me about what I was to do in the office before I began work there, he remembered, nor has he ever since.
So on that first day, he filled inkwells and walked around trying to be useful.
Two years in came his first real test.
A Wall Street con artist had tricked the earnest young heir into a fraudulent stock deal, swallowing nearly a million dollars of his father's money.
Terrified, Jr.
went to report the disaster.
The elder Rockefeller listened calmly, audited the figures without a single word of reproach, and said, All right, John, I'll take care of it.
The mistake was never mentioned again.
What Junior was never handed was the truth about how the massive fortune had been made.
He had taken his parents' morality entirely on faith, and his father left it that way.
Most of what my son knows of the situation Rockefeller once admitted of the South Improvement Company is
is his memory of what he read in Tarbell's book.
Discovering his family's history from a woman determined to destroy them half broke the air.
His migraines and the year he spent in France recuperating were the cost of defending a record he'd never been allowed to really see, let alone understand.
In 1910, Junior made his decision and resigned from the board of Standard Oil and stepped away from the business side for good.
His real life's work would be the other machine, the giving one.
Over the next half century, he moved more than a billion dollars of his father's fortune out into the world.
But even so, the weight of it never lifted.
He carried these headaches for decades.
As Gates observed, Junior desperately wanted to escape his father's shadow and forge an independent career, but he was dedicated from birth to the overwhelming burdens not to be evaded.
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