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Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired
- ▶ 7:32 David Senra I bought him this special edition, uh, centennial edition version of Henry Flagler's biography.
- ▶ 7:40 David Rosenthal Oh, Flagler, yes.
- ▶ 8:00 David Rosenthal Because Flagler moved to Florida later in life.
- ▶ 8:32 David Senra And so that's what Flagler does.
- ▶ 1:07:14 David Senra Like, the Charlie, or the Henry Flagler book, I knew that was good for Charlie Munger because of what he said.
Standard Oil Part II (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- ▶ 14:15 David Rosenthal So, as, uh, turnout writes in Titan about this, quote, the 1892 overhaul was mostly shadow play, a charade to appease the courts.
- ▶ 20:50 David Rosenthal Uh, Archibald and Flagler and all these guys, they were, they were something.
- ▶ 1:02:27 David Rosenthal Theodore Roosevelt, a little, like all the glee that we had in part one for Rockefeller and Standard Oil and Flagler and like all these, uh, mafia dons and everything that they're doing.
- ▶ 1:37:49 David Rosenthal And because his mafia cronies, uh, you know, Archbold and Flagler, I think Flagler was gone at this point, but you know, all the like, they kept raising the dividend against his wishes.
Standard Oil Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 59:50 David Rosenthal I, uh, I've been posting on Twitter, like, all the fun stuff, like, just because I've been enjoying this research so much, and I posted about this guy, Henry Morrison Flagler, on, uh, on Twitter, and, uh, Andy Sparks replied to my tweet…
- ▶ 1:00:10 David Rosenthal He says, quote, Flagler was a savage.
- ▶ 1:00:26 David Rosenthal He's willing to do just about whatever, but it was Flagler.
- ▶ 1:01:02 David Rosenthal So Flagler ends up coming into the business, or coming into the business because, um,
- ▶ 1:01:35 David Rosenthal And his, his sort of one term that he asked for as part of investing is that he wants, I think maybe Flagler was his nephew or something.
- ▶ 1:01:42 David Rosenthal He wants Flagler to join the firm as treasurer to quote, keep an eye on his investment.
- ▶ 1:01:49 David Rosenthal And so Flagler joins and literally, this is what I tweeted.
- ▶ 1:02:09 David Rosenthal So Flagler takes over the negotiations for shipping of oil with the railroads.
- ▶ 1:03:05 David Rosenthal Flagler, he's like, oh, this is nice.
- ▶ 1:04:34 David Rosenthal But as you said, Ben, they're like, well, how, uh, you know, uh, Henry, like, this is, uh, this is a great idea, but how are you gonna do it?
- ▶ 1:05:38 David Rosenthal So, Flag was like, don't worry, guys, I got this.
- ▶ 1:07:45 David Rosenthal And Standard, and Rockefeller, and Flagler, they're like, they're like the, they're like the godfather.
- ▶ 1:10:04 David Rosenthal So Flagler comes up with this idea.
- ▶ 1:10:27 David Rosenthal Did you read about how Flagler, who was not a lawyer, drew up the actual, like-
- ▶ 1:10:51 David Rosenthal So, Flagler comes up with the ideas, like, ah, these joint stock companies, which, I mean, I think, like, wasn't the Dutch East India Company a joint stock company?
- ▶ 1:11:42 David Rosenthal And the best, like, it's Flagler that comes up with this.
- ▶ 1:28:29 David Rosenthal Uh, so the railroads, they, they know they've maybe gone a little bit too far, and they're like, uh, guys, I don't know that we can actually do this, and, uh, Rockefeller and Flagler, they're like, ah, it's okay,
- ▶ 1:29:00 David Rosenthal Flagler and Rockefeller go around to all the other refiners in Cleveland.
- ▶ 1:29:36 David Rosenthal So now Flagler and Rockefeller go to them and say like, you know, that great rate that we organized for you.
- ▶ 1:34:45 David Rosenthal You know, Rockefeller and Flagler and this whole crew, like these guys are paranoid as well, right?