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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The location proved to be of critical importance because they could play one transportation method against the other.
The refinery was called Excelsior Works.
Anders ran the equipment, Rockefeller would run everything else.
He threw himself into it, and his own family got a daily view of the obsession.
In the pre-dawn dark, Samuel Adams and a growing group of men would gather at the Rockefeller house and wait in the dining room while John ate his breakfast.
At night, John would nudge his brother William awake in the room they shared and say, I've been thinking out a plan to do so-and-so.
Now, what do you think of this scheme?
Keep your ideas till morning, William would groan at him.
I want to sleep.
His schemes kept coming anyway.
The year was 1863, and all of this was happening during the middle of the Civil War.
The war was terrible for the country, but good for many of its businesses.
Union soldiers wrote letters home by the light of kerosene lamps.
General Grant was drafting his dispatches by one in his tent.
Demand for kerosene kept climbing even as prices swung wildly.
And through all of it, the drills in Pennsylvania rarely stopped.
They paused exactly once, only when General Lee invaded the state and the oil men put down their tools briefly to help defend it.
The new firm made money in refining every single year of the war.
This only seemed to accelerate Rockefeller's appetite for growth.
But Clark, his original partner, began to get cold feet.
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