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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Standard Oil comes up
How Raymond Plank Made a Fortune in Big Oil's Scraps
- ▶ 30:36 David Senra Remember when Henry, when Rockefeller retired from standard oil, he retained his, his interests, his equity interest in the company, right?
- ▶ 34:20 David Senra If it works out, Standard Oil can pay me back and we can, you know, keep the assets in the company.
Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly
- ▶ 37:26 David Senra He shrouded his entire organization in secrecy, but one of my favorite things, one of my favorite stories from Rockefeller is, you know, he obviously built Standard Oil by acquiring a bunch of other companies, and sometimes a potential…
How Rockefeller Worked
- ▶ 0:19 David Senra The reason I think this is the best biography of Rockefeller is because it has the most concise description of how he actually built Standard Oil, which is what you and I are actually interested in. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:21 David Senra There is no standard oil monopoly without this happening. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:31 David Senra And number two, how could Rockefeller and Andrews, which is the company he's going to build before Standard Oil, which is going to turn into Standard Oil, surpass its competitors in Cleveland? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:55 David Senra So even a standard oil is getting bigger. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:52 David Senra Rockefeller's company is refining about 1500 barrels a day, but they're shipping 4200 barrels a day. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:39 David Senra He's saying my company is the strongest. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:36 David Senra No connection to standard would ever be revealed publicly. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:17 David Senra And so he explains how he approached those he wanted in his company. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:07 David Senra Standard Oil had secretly approached Tweedle and told them that they will cover all the legal costs when Tweedle gets sued for patent infringement, which indeed happens. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:25 David Senra Because Scott is worried standard is getting big and will continue to get bigger. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:24 David Senra So standard oil sold over 50 byproducts from the refining of oil. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:38 David Senra When the media wrote critical articles about standard oil, Rockefeller would buy off the reporters in the media too. 4 times in the scene
How Larry Ellison Thinks
- ▶ 52:14 David Senra Even Bill Gates' business strategy is just a copy of Standard Oil's strategy back in the 18 seventies.
Todd Graves and His $10 Billion Chicken Finger Dream
- ▶ 6:43 David Senra Hence, 39 drops of solder became the new standard instituted at all standard oil refineries.
- ▶ 33:38 David Senra The name of the biography is called The Invisible Billionaire, and the reason it's called that is because in the eighties, I think, Daniel Ludwig was the richest American, and no one knew who he was, and he started out, I mean, he had a,…
400 Pages of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger In Their Own Words
- ▶ 15:49 David Senra and they'd turn into partners cause he'd get, he'd give them the, uh, standard oil stock.
The Last Oil Baron: Leon Hess
- ▶ 29:14 David Senra Shell built one in 1918 in Curacao, and Standard Oil had built a refinery in Aruba in 1929.
James J. Hill: The Empire Builder
- ▶ 8:01 David Senra And so the note I left myself when I read that is there is no standard oil monopoly without this happening first. 2 times in the scene
Rockefeller's Autobiography
- ▶ 5:04 David Senra And so in this first chapter, he's going to talk a lot about the kind of person that would wind up cooperating with Standard and essentially folding their oil company inside of his own. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:27 David Senra So Rockefeller tells us a story where a group of all the partners of Standard Oil, they're meeting together, and they're talking about making a fairly large investment in one of their businesses, okay? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:11 David Senra He actually talks about what Flagler did after he retired from Standard Oil.
- ▶ 16:48 David Senra And then it goes into how standard oil was organized. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:03 David Senra Another thing that he repeats over and over again is that all the great things in life come from compounding, and we're gonna get to this later when they're just paying themselves, like, incredible amount of dividends, and he talks about… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:30 David Senra And so then Rockefeller starts to go back in time, and he talks about what was occurring before he starts Standard Oil, and he actually had an oil company, a small oil company with a bunch of partners, and they weren't getting along, and… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:22 David Senra The real beginning of the Standard Oil Company, it should be remembered, is that it's not so much the consolidation of the firms, but the coming together of the men who had the combined brainpower to do the work, which was the actual… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:38 David Senra And so early in the book, Rockefeller makes the point that some of the people that worked at standard oil, you know, they, they would, they were fine training people, even if they didn't have experience, they just hire for enthusiasm,… 3 times in the scene
The Nobel Family Dynasty
- ▶ 1:26 David Senra And did not shrink from head-on competition with Standard Oil and Royal Dutch Shell for lucrative world markets.
- ▶ 5:37 David Senra Ludwig's son after him launched the world's first diesel-driven tugboats and tankers while bargaining with the Rothschilds and struggling against the Royal Dutch Shell Company and bartering with Standard Oil.
- ▶ 45:54 David Senra There is going to be this, like, triarchy, is the way I described it, and maybe I've just been watching too much Game of Thrones, but the triarchy of the Russian oil industry at this time, once they see the success that the Nobel family… 6 times in the scene
How To Be Rich by J. Paul Getty
- ▶ 33:53 David Senra Hence, 39 drops of solder became the new standard instituted at all standard oil refineries.
The Founder of Rolex: Hans Wilsdorf
- ▶ 8:33 David Senra Did Rockefeller jump from Hewlett and Tuttle, this produce commission house, into Standard Oil?
The Financial Genius Behind A Century of Wall Street Scandals: Ivar Kreuger
- ▶ 19:13 David Senra This is after, you know, they, they'd broken up trusts like standard oil and steel and everything else.
- ▶ 35:05 David Senra The banks that he was borrowing money from to build the early days of standard oil.
The Biography of George Lucas
- ▶ 1:41:05 David Senra It's not like, okay, Standard Oil has six open spots. 2 times in the scene
How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer
- ▶ 15:36 David Senra I think it's in like, you know, a hundred company or a hundred countries, I don't know, 30 something companies, if I remember correctly, you know, it's in, it's in shipping and mining and transportation and real estate and hauling oil for…
Texas Oil Billionaire Monty Moncrief
- ▶ 30:47 David Senra A few years later, uh, the company that bought it for two and a half million sold it for thirty-seven million to Standard Oil, and so a bunch of other people, like, were like,
How To Lose A Few Billion Dollars: The Life Story of Samuel Insull
- ▶ 54:23 David Senra And then you'll be rewarded with standard oil stock.
The Autobiography of Christian Dior
- ▶ 39:26 David Senra It's not like, okay, standard oil has six open spots. 2 times in the scene
Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)
- ▶ 1:15:59 David Senra It's not like, okay, Standard Oil has six open spots. 2 times in the scene
Charlie Munger (the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack)
- ▶ 59:50 David Senra Rockefeller made all his money in Standard Oil, and then he would make some really weird investment decisions and lost a bunch of money outside of Standard Oil for the most part. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:34:53 David Senra It's not like, okay, Standard Oil has six open spots. 2 times in the scene
The Autobiography of Ted Turner
- ▶ 1:04:22 David Senra It's not like, okay, Standard Oil has six open spots. 2 times in the scene
John D Rockefeller: 38 Letters Rockefeller Wrote to His Son
- ▶ 1:39 David Senra At the same time, Standard Oil's pipelines extended bit by bit into the oil field.
- ▶ 15:03 David Senra If you really think about standard oil, like he built a company of founders, he would defeat you.
- ▶ 28:58 David Senra Soon, we registered a standard oil company in Ohio with millions of dollars in assets, and the capital expanded significantly within three and a half years. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:41 David Senra He says, this is one of the reasons why standard oil is so powerful that it awes its opponents. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:38:05 David Senra Two, episode two 47 is on Henry Flagler, which is Rockefeller's partner, like his main standard oil partner.
The Biography of Jimmy Buffett
- ▶ 4:20 David Senra He had hustled oil to Japan for the Standard Oil Company, and he had been a seal hunter in the Indian Ocean.
The World's Great Family Dynasties: Rockefeller, Rothschild, Morgan, & Toyada
- ▶ 59:15 David Senra Uh, his clincher was to offer the victim a look at the books of Standard. 4 times in the scene
Bernard Arnault (The Richest Man in the World)
- ▶ 1:04:23 David Senra And using the money raised to monopolize his industry and have complete control over not only Standard Oil, but the entire oil refining market.
The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig
- ▶ 7:56 David Senra Again, he made his first fortune, and I'll go into more detail of where, like, the role Standard Oil has to play in this, uh, later, but this is really important to get across.
- ▶ 23:27 David Senra So it says up until now, before doing this deal with Standard Oil, Ludwig had been chartering his ships to smaller refineries. 2 times in the scene
Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick's Bitter Partnership
- ▶ 7:38 David Senra They talk about Standard Oil.
Henry Ford's Autobiography
- ▶ 51:11 David Senra And so, at 39 drops of solder became the new standard, ah, at Standard Oil, at all the Standard Oil refineries. 2 times in the scene