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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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.
This would likely end the wartime buying that had been propping up their commodity business.
But new oil wells were still coming in across Pennsylvania, making the crude supply look safe for now.
The demand for kerosene seemed insatiable.
Last, he checked his credit with the banks.
And then he baited Maurice Clark.
They met one evening in February.
Clark, assuming that Samuel Andrews was on his side, called for a dissolution of the business.
And Rockefeller agreed.
Denny ran a notice in the Cleveland Press the next day announcing the news.
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