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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And then they started working on how to sell those byproducts that other refiners just threw away.
That instinct to use what everyone else threw away had always been a habit of Rockefeller's.
And it pulled the company towards something the oil men distrusted, science.
The first men in oil worked by smell and luck.
Rockefeller hired chemists instead and would, in time, put a working laboratory inside every refinery he built and owned.
The patient-measured application of science became an integral part of how they grew.
Within a year of the Clark auction, the profits founded a secondary refinery, which they simply called Standard Works.
Rockefeller's brother William was put in charge of it.
Rockefeller was 26 years old, running two refineries, and still hungry for capital.
What he needed next was a partner with access to real money.
Aside from his wife, Rockefeller was closest to his brother William and to one other man, Henry Flagler.
The two of them went back to the grain trade before there was any oil between them.
They'd met when Flagler shipped carloads of wheat through Rockefeller's commission house.
He had gotten rich doing so and then moved into the salt trade and lost it all.
He came back to Cleveland broke and looking for the next big thing.
Oil looked to be that thing.
He took an office in the same building as Rockefeller and an old acquaintance soon turned into something closer.
Flagler was eight years older than Rockefeller, and he was everything Clark as a business partner had not been.
He was as bold as he was impatient.
He was a born dealmaker who could talk a railroad president into almost anything.
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