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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Rockefeller heard him out.
The numbers were incredible.
Crude averaged $2 a barrel, while refined kerosene sold for $13.
And a refinery could be built for $1,000 and run with just a handful of men.
He soon made his decision to enter.
In 1863, him and his partner Clark formed a new firm with a new name, Andrews Clark and Company.
Samuel Andrews would run the refinery and Rockefeller and Maurice Clark would handle the money.
24-year-old Rockefeller called this a little bit of a side hustle to their main commodity business.
It would not remain this way.
They found a three-acre site in Cleveland along the river, right where the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad met the waterway.
The rails could bring crude oil from the oil regions in Pennsylvania, and water or rail could bring the oil they refined to the eastern markets of New York.
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.
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