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 motto?
Do unto others as they would do unto you, and do it first.
Flagler brought to the table a network of wealthy connections, and with their money, he joined the firm, which was now named Rockefeller, Andrews, and Flagler.
Overnight, they were able to outspend every other refiner in Cleveland.
Rockefeller and Flagler lived just a few doors apart from one another and began walking to work side by side each morning, then home again for lunch and back to the office, and then home again at night.
They did their thinking and planning on those walks.
And by the time they'd reached the office, the thing was usually decided.
One historian called it the partnership's parliament of two.
At the office, their desks sat back to back.
Letters would pass between them again and again until the wording was exact.
And Flagler, Rockefeller remembered, drew particularly all of our contracts.
Rockefeller was the systems man, bringing relentless cost discipline, patience mixed with a willingness to act, and a temperament to bring everyone in line.
Flagler, on the other hand, was, as Rockefeller remembers, always on the active side of every question.
He fought the railroads constantly and pushed to always build bigger and more permanent.
Flagler put it this way, "...a friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship."
That was their partnership in a nutshell.
With Flagler, they took one profitable oil refinery and rebuilt it as a business vehicle for swallowing up their Cleveland rivals.
And later, once Flagler drew up the legal forms and the incorporations that would allow them to become the Standard Oil Trust, they were able to reach across state lines and do the swallowing of other business entities whole.
Years later, when asked who designed the structure of the early Standard Oil, Rockefeller did not hesitate.
No, sir.
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