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Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly
- ▶ 14:41 David Senra Think about like Cornelius Vanderbilt, other robber barons, where essentially they monopolize, you know, in Vanderbilt's case, you know, I own all the ships. 2 times in the scene
Joseph Pulitzer: The Inventor of Mass Media
- ▶ 0:07 David Senra In the 19th century, when America became an industrial nation and Carnegie provided the steel, Rockefeller the oil, Morgan the money, and Vanderbilt the railroads, Joseph Pulitzer was the midwife to the birth of the modern mass media.
How Rockefeller Worked
- ▶ 2:26 David Senra So Vanderbilt, Cornelius Vanderbilt was 45 years older than Rockefeller. 4 times in the scene
Dinner With Michael Ovitz
- ▶ 12:20 David Senra Cause you know, he had read about the Vanderbilts and the Rockefellers and the Carnegie's and the Ford, but he thought it was an edge to introduce people to other incredible founders that very few people have heard of
400 Pages of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger In Their Own Words
- ▶ 7:27 David Senra Cornelius Vanderbilt, when he was the richest man in America, he was in the seventies. 2 times in the scene
The Richest Woman In America: Hetty Green
- ▶ 0:12 David Senra And yet she made it a point to learn from people like Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, Rockefeller, JP Morgan, and Jay Gold.
- ▶ 18:22 David Senra But if speculators who had bought on margin would force to sell their shares to cover their losses, shrewd investors like Cornelius Vanderbilt and Jay gold swooped up to stocks at low prices. 5 times in the scene
How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra Cornelius Vanderbilt was only interested in two things, making money and winning. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:48 David Senra I don't, I can't think of a historical equivalent to Cornelius of Vanderbilt. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:41 David Senra And so Vanderbilt figures out, Hey, I know how I'm going to make another fortune from the gold rush. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:07 David Senra So his habit of filibustering is what it was called is what's going to cause him to, to cross paths with Vanderbilt.
- ▶ 17:12 David Senra Vanderbilt does something very similar here. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:23 David Senra In the first 12 months, it delivered Vanderbilt per, a personal profit of tens of millions of dollars, in, in today's equivalent, tens of millions of dollars. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:02 David Senra Now, there is something that's, that's also interesting, is Cornelius Vanderbilt had never taken a vacation in his life, and so he builds this, I think it's the largest ship in the world at the time, his largest personal ship, and he's… 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:18 David Senra That war and uncertainty is also going to play into Vanderbilt's, uh, hands. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:18 David Senra So he's going to seize Vanderbilt's 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:22 David Senra He, again, multiple, multiple attacks. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:10 David Senra He didn't expect Vanderbilt, which is really weird to, because William Walker is an American. 20 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:51 David Senra Deprived of vessels, Walker would be like a man without legs, and Cornelius Vanderbilt would be one critical step closer to winning his war. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:06 David Senra By this time, Cornelius Vanderbilt had forgotten all about William Walker because he wasn't even interested in Nicaragua anymore. 10 times in the scene
How To Lose A Few Billion Dollars: The Life Story of Samuel Insull
- ▶ 1:16:02 David Senra Uh, like, Phil Knight, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Steve Jobs, Edwin Land.
John D Rockefeller: 38 Letters Rockefeller Wrote to His Son
- ▶ 15:39 David Senra In fact, most of the other Titans that he talks about in this book, because Cornelius Vanderbilt is in this book,
The Biography of Balenciaga
- ▶ 1:13 David Senra Rockefeller and Cornelius Vanderbilt, and I was shocked because I'd never, I didn't know who Jay Gold was at the time, and Rockefeller, he was asked questions like, who's the best businessman you ever know, you've ever known, 2 times in the scene
How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune
- ▶ 0:55 David Senra Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:49 David Senra Imagine how much more wealth he would likely build if he actually lived to the same age as like a Rockefeller or a Vanderbilt. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:36 David Senra This is eventually gonna lead him to going to war with Cornelius Vanderbilt.
- ▶ 36:18 David Senra So then the next few chapters go into great detail about this war for the Erie Railroad that goes on between Jay Gould, Daniel Drew, Jim Fiss, Cornelius Vanderbilt. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:30 David Senra It mattered if the railroad was run by a builder like Cornelius Vanderbilt, or a speculative director bent on manipulating the stock price, robbing the corporate treasury, and awarding corporate contracts to himself and his friends.
- ▶ 47:08 David Senra And then they spent more time into why, even when Vanderbilt called Jay the smartest person in America, he didn't like him. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:29 David Senra And so the author does a great job in one paragraph summarizing this war, this rate war that's going on between the railroad that, that Jay Gold, um, is currently in control of and the one that Vanderbilt was in, uh, in control of. 6 times in the scene
Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick's Bitter Partnership
- ▶ 7:41 David Senra Vanderbilt's Transportation Network is obviously going to be in here as well.
Paul Graham's Essays
- ▶ 45:44 David Senra Same with Jay Gold and Cornelius Vanderbilt.
The Biography of Thomas Edison
- ▶ 33:12 David Senra Cornelius Vanderbilt, who doesn't give out, uh, give out compliments for anything, said Jay Gold. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:19 David Senra This is Vanderbilt's son, because Cornelius had just died and left, I think, like, 95% of his money to his oldest son, and J.P.