Cleveland

“In four weeks, between mid-February and mid-March, 1872, Standard Oil bought out 22 of Cleveland's 26 refineries.”

“And Rockefeller would only meet with Vanderbilt if Vanderbilt came to Cleveland and met Rockefeller inside of his office.”

“Cleveland was actually the number two largest center for oil refining behind Pittsburgh at this time. Once they do this deal, Cleveland is like fast tracked and becomes number one.”

“Profitability wise as a percentage, like smaller places, actually like a Kansas city and Cleveland are going to be better percentage wise, but I don't really want to be there or like own places there.”

“And even if you asked me, you know, four months ago, would I be in San Francisco right now? And we were still in Cleveland. We had just come off our best quarter ever. And I would have told you were crazy. So it's just kind of funny how things work. And you kn…”

“You know, honestly, I had thought, sort of a hypothesis of mine was that there, we would see increased geographic democratization over the last handful of years, given, you know, better communication, lower friction and overhead in, in engaging remote resource…”