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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When Clark looked at the same numbers that Rockefeller did, he only saw the risk.
And he wasn't alone.
Many people thought the Pennsylvania oil fields were a fluke.
They would give out soon, they said, just like so many gold mines did out west.
It took two years, but the tension between Rockefeller and Clark finally came to a head.
We have been asking too many loans in order to extend this oil business, Clark told Rockefeller one morning.
Altogether, we have borrowed $100,000.
Rockefeller replied calmly, and not for the first time.
We should borrow whenever we can safely extend the business by doing so.
If that's the way you want to do business, we better dissolve and let you run your own affairs to suit yourself, Clark said, walking out.
It was not the first time he said this, nor would it be the last time.
But Rockefeller had had enough of the disagreements.
Their other partner, Samuel Andrews, walked in, and Rockefeller put it to him straight.
Sam, we are prospering.
We have a future before us, a big future.
Will you come in with me?
Yes, said Andrews.
So Rockefeller calculated.
He had Andrews on his side.
It was 1865, and the Civil War was now winding down.
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