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The Mindset Behind Building a Great Little Business | Brad Jacobs
- ▶ 37:25 Brad Jacobs Exxon and Mobile and Texaco and Shell and Golf and BP and all the customers that became our big customers over time.
Andrew Mellon: America’s Secret Banker [Outliers]
- ▶ 2:01 Shane Parrish Alcoa, Gulf Oil, and Copers, companies that still shape American industry today.
- ▶ 30:08 Shane Parrish Gulf Oil once declared a staggering 500% dividend, so large that it attracted the attention of the regulators.
- ▶ 33:23 Shane Parrish Consider golf oil.
- ▶ 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. 3 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.
Brad Jacobs: How To Build a Billion Dollar Company
- ▶ 35:57 Brad Jacobs Oil business was really volatile, and some young whippersnappers like us could come in and be taken seriously by Exxon and Mobile and Texaco and Shell and Golf and BP and all the customers that became our big customers over time.