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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When he started his own commodity house, he'd come by her house and describe his business to her, and she'd listen with delight.
He recorded everything in his ledger.
The bouquets of flowers he bought her, the lectures they attended together.
And in April 1864, he recorded a diamond ring.
That fall, they were married.
Rockefeller was 25.
They were a perfect match of temperament.
Both were convinced that life was for duty rather than enjoyment.
In those first years of marriage, Rockefeller carried the company's books home at night and went over all the figures with SETI at the table.
She came to know the state of business almost as well as his partners did.
From the start, she studied his career and even began to coach it.
With Maurice Clark gone, Rockefeller did exactly what his ex-partner had feared.
He borrowed and he grew, plowing every dollar of profit back into oil.
The schemes he had once tested on a half-asleep William now had real money behind them.
Rockefeller wasn't just borrowing to buy more crude oil, he was borrowing to save on costs, building a shop right next to the refinery to make their own barrels.
Barrels were one of the biggest costs in the trade.
With other refiners paying $3 a barrel, Rockefeller was soon building his own for $1.50.
Then he hired a plumber by the month instead of calling one for each repair job.
These were small things, but as they grew their business, they compounded.
The borrowing carried a private cost, though, that few ever knew about.
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