John D. Rockefeller, every mention
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Building a Power Company for the Next 50 Years | Zach Dell, Base Power
- ▶ 52:55 David Senra You'd be shocked at how many of the robber barons like started out accounting, you know, like Rockefeller.
Sam Altman on Building OpenAI & Betting on the Impossible
- ▶ 22:10 David Senra I'm like, oh, well, like Carnegie did this and Rockefeller did this.
- ▶ 48:57 David Senra Or what did Rockefeller do about this?
- ▶ 1:07:52 David Senra That guy's got like Rockefeller, Ludwig, or any of these people.
Excellence Is the Capacity To Take Pain | Travis Kalanick, Founder of Uber
- ▶ 24:03 David Senra When you're talking, I'm like, shit, this is Rockefeller. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:59 David Senra I'm thinking about Rockefeller walking by and saying, hey, you guys are putting 50 drops of solder on these barrels, and you're doing that because you think it's 50, so it doesn't leak. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:35 Travis Kalanick Anti-competitive things and antitrust law and Rockefeller and things like this.
- ▶ 1:47:42 David Senra There's another line when you, when you speak, there's a lot of things that you say that remind me of Rockefeller.
Evan Spiegel, Snapchat: Building a Multi-Billion Dollar Company
- ▶ 29:34 David Senra And he essentially built very much like Rockefeller did, like built it.
How Elon Thinks
- ▶ 1:24:58 David Senra But like Carnegie and steel, Rockefeller and oil, Vanderbilt and transportation.
Jason Fried: Your Only Competition Is Your Costs
- ▶ 4:23 David Senra This is something I talk about over and over again with my other podcast founders, where it's just like, it is kind of weird how every single one of history's greatest entrepreneurs, they were obsessed about watching their costs from, from…
Tobi Lütke: 21 Years of Building Shopify
- ▶ 23:18 David Senra Rockefeller was doing that a 150 years ago. 2 times in the scene
John Mackey: The Dropout Who Changed How America Eats
- ▶ 6:05 David Senra There'd be a lot of parallels between you and Johnny Rockefeller, but there definitely is. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:04 David Senra Again, Rockefeller did this exact same thing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:40 David Senra It's like a lot more collaborative, but I am very curious and I run the same idea that you did and the same idea that Rockefeller does.
- ▶ 50:31 John Mackey He's, he's created, he and people like Rockefeller, they're, they're lambasted as the villains when they are the greatest heroes that have ever, ever lived in terms of creating value and helping people.
- ▶ 1:10:50 John Mackey You know, by the way, you said I was, you know, like Rockefeller. 12 times in the scene
My Conversation With Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Founder of Colossus & Positive Sum | David Senra
- ▶ 26:01 Patrick O'Shaughnessy And so he was a giant, he was broken up in the antitrust, you know, in the Rockefeller antitrust stuff around Standard Oil.
CAA Co-founder Michael Ovitz: Failure Is Not an Option
- ▶ 12:27 David Senra I'm like, you ever heard any of my episodes on Rockefeller? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:45 David Senra In a very Rockefeller-esque way of just like plowing a field till I get to the end, and then it uses enormous research and basic knowledge you have, and then you combine it with these experiments and the, the, the frame of reference that…
- ▶ 1:00:39 Michael Ovitz He's got Rockefeller integrity.