Shane Parrish
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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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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.
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.
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