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Joseph Pulitzer: The Inventor of Mass Media
- ▶ 36:43 David Senra Now, Jay Gold at this time, who's another robber baron, one I've done multiple episodes on and will do multiple episodes on in the future, accidentally owns a newspaper. 5 times in the scene
How Rockefeller Worked
- ▶ 30:17 David Senra This deal at Rockefeller is going to work out with Jay Gold, who controls the area at the time is going to be a magnificent source of hidden profits, looking for points of leverage and finding hidden sources of profits is something he's…
- ▶ 30:54 David Senra So he starts doing this deal with Jay Gold who controls the railroad. 5 times in the scene
400 Pages of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger In Their Own Words
- ▶ 7:12 David Senra I remember, so there's a guy named Jay Gold, who I became slightly obsessed with. 10 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.
- ▶ 6:08 David Senra Rockefeller, George Westinghouse, 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.
James J. Hill: The Empire Builder
- ▶ 40:46 David Senra Unlike Jay Gold or Henry Villard, Jim Hill took the opposite tack from speculative practices, such as milking a railroad of its land grants and its resources, and then dumping the stock to a gullible public.
Rockefeller's Autobiography
- ▶ 6:38 David Senra Or have ever studied is, I would say John D Rockefeller and Jeff Bezos, maybe throwing Jay Gold in there as well.
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, 3 times in the scene
How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra Jay Gold took time off from counting his money to have lunch at Delmonico's, the fanciest restaurant in town. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:08 David Senra It gives you an absolutely fantastic overview of the life and career of Jay Gold. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:11 David Senra So I'm gonna go into his early life to give you an idea of how the circumstances and the tragedy that he had to endure when he was young 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:55 David Senra He had an unbelievable work ethic and an incredibly long attention span. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:26 David Senra Then Jay Gold, that in turn is going to lead Jay to realize that there's actually more money in the markets for the leather goods that the tanneries producing than the actual manufacturing of the leather goods himself, which then gives him… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:27 David Senra Uh, so it says he had half interest in a profitable tanning operation. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:30 David Senra You have on one side, Jay Gold, 40 years younger, way less experience, way less money than Zadok Pratt. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:18 David Senra And so when I get to this part of the book, I think of Jay Gold, I think of Rockefeller, and I think of Charlie Munger saying, do not multitask. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:34 David Senra What I want to point out is an important part that, that Jay was, uh, like a teetotaler. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:43 David Senra That's exactly what Jay did, and then he decides, hey, um, I'm gonna control it, and then I'll just run it. 19 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:27 David Senra I do want to touch on aspects outside of his, uh, work just real quick. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:24 David Senra And so then the book spends several chapters going into detail about what Jay is most notorious for. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:30 David Senra And so eventually Jay is actually going to leave. 14 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. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:08 David Senra So a twenty-one-year-old Thomas Edison happened to be at the gold exchange the day that Jay Gold tried to corner the gold market. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:10 David Senra And one of the really sad parts about Jay's life is not only, he was married for, I think, 24, 26 years. 6 times in the scene
Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick's Bitter Partnership
- ▶ 4:41 David Senra Uh, Jay Gold.
The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
- ▶ 1:06 David Senra And so it occurred to me last night, as I was rereading my highlights from Eat You in Hell, there's a handful of highlights that I think I should tell you first before we jump into Carnegie's autobiography that I think will give you…
- ▶ 34:58 David Senra I don't remember if it was in this book or the book I read on Jay Gold, but they make the difference in the increase in technology.
- ▶ 40:17 David Senra Jay Gold spotted the opportunity for Telegraph
Paul Graham's Essays
- ▶ 45:44 David Senra Same with Jay Gold and Cornelius Vanderbilt.
The Biography of John Malone (Cable Cowboy)
- ▶ 26:19 David Senra This is important because we, we talked about this recently where I think it was last week in the Edison, uh, number two, 67 in the Edison biography and number two, 58, which was about Jay gold. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Thomas Edison
- ▶ 27:06 David Senra And so he gets taken advantage of later on by people like Jay gold, JP Morgan. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:53 David Senra Okay, so you know, or you probably know, I did this podcast on Jay Gold. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:27 David Senra This is one of the weapons gold is going to use in his war against Western union, but it says, uh, Edison's method. 18 times in the scene