Shane Parrish
speaker
20,548 appearances
48 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 1 Sep
Shane Parrish’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He was often told no.
What if the president of a bank refused to make me a loan, he said later.
That was nothing.
He might lecture me on the folly of making a loan for the purpose of which I was seeking it.
That made no difference to me.
Simply meant that I must look elsewhere until I got what I wanted.
Like many outliers, John D. refused to quit after someone said no.
Next, he began pressing the railroads for more cars during peak shipping season to handle the growing amounts of inventory he was buying.
they too would rebuff him.
But Rockefeller kept pressing.
That was where the firm was at the end of August 1859.
Rockefeller was still just 20 years old, but already you can start to see something is different about him.
That very same month, in a township in western Pennsylvania, a man named Edwin Drake struck oil.
Drake had been hired by a small group of New Haven, Connecticut that suspected there were large amounts of crude petroleum in the rock under the Pennsylvania creeks.
They wondered if drilling for it, like they did for water, might just work.
It turned out they were right.
Drake's well, the first commercial oil well in the United States, hit at 69.5 feet underground.
By the next morning, a barrel and a half of crude sat in a tub at the foot of the well.
That's when the chaos started.
In a short time, it seemed like every man with a horse and shovel and a bit of money to risk became a wildcatter.
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