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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He won the battle that day, but lost the war.
The committee's report delivered the sentence that trailed the company forever.
"'This is the original trust.
It is the type of system which has spread like a disease throughout the commercial system of this country.'
And here's the part that gets lost.
By the time the country's hatred of John D. Rockefeller reached full boil, he was barely going to work.
He had been fading out of 26 Broadway since the mid-1890s, and in 1897, at age 58, he stopped coming in at all.
Power passed to a man named John Archbold.
He was small and quick, and given to bounding down the corridors, whistling, Onward, Christian soldiers!
But with a hard temper underneath the cheer.
Under Archibald, the prices crept up, the profits swelled, and the political methods got cruder.
But Rockefeller never announced that he had left.
His partners insisted he keep the title of president, and he agreed.
But he was president by name only.
He no longer attended regular meetings or drew a salary.
All the while, the public went on believing he was still the man giving the orders.
For the next decade and a half, he would answer personally for many decisions others were making.
I suspect that because he was such a focal point for the public attention, the company was able to keep going for decades.
He kept declining the magazine profiles almost weekly.
One request came from a new magazine run by an editor named Samuel McClure, who was at that moment in Paris recruiting an obscure young writer from Pennsylvania.
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