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The Outlier Playbook: The Patterns Behind Enduring Success
- ▶ 30:15 Shane Parrish That little startup, it became Alcoa. 2 times in the scene
Andrew Mellon: America’s Secret Banker [Outliers]
- ▶ 2:01 Shane Parrish Alcoa, Gulf Oil, and Copers, companies that still shape American industry today.
- ▶ 23:14 Shane Parrish Their company, named the Pittsburgh Reduction Company, had developed something revolutionary, a practical method of producing aluminum through electrolysis. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:34 Shane Parrish At Alcoa, workers lived in houses financed by Mellon's Union Trust, built on Mellon Lots, heated by Mellon Coal,
- ▶ 39:20 Shane Parrish He had witnessed firsthand how his most successful ventures like Alcoa or Carborundum and Gulf Oil increasingly relied on what we would now call research and development. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:44 Shane Parrish Only 2.5% of Americans owned stocks in 1929, and his own wealth remained largely insulated, tied up in mostly private enterprises like Gulf Oil and Alcoa, rather than publicly traded securities.