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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In Cleveland in those years, an endorsement from Truman P. Handy was a passport to borrowing from anyone.
And Rockefeller, of course, knew this.
That's why he picked him.
If Handy said yes, every other door in the city would open.
He knocked on Handy's office door one morning, sat across from him, and laid out the particulars of his business in his usual simple and forthright way.
He then asked for a loan.
How much do you want?
Handy asked.
Two thousand dollars.
All right, Mr. Rockefeller, you can have it.
Just give me your warehouse receipts.
They're good enough for me.
Rockefeller never forgot how that felt.
Just think of it, he said.
A bank had trusted me for $2,000.
I felt that I was now a man of importance in the community.
It looked from the outside like the easiest thing in the world.
A 20-year-old walks into the office of the most important banker in Cleveland and walks out with $2,000.
But Handy hadn't made that decision on instinct alone.
It was years in the making.
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