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Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street [Outliers]
- ▶ 29:00 Shane Parrish Hedy immediately went across the Hudson to Hoboken.
Cornelius Vanderbilt: The First Tycoon [Outliers]
- ▶ 6:39 Shane Parrish While farmers living up the Hudson may make just one delivery of crops to Riverside merchants in an entire year at harvest time, the Vanderbilt house pulsed constantly with buying and selling, borrowing and lending, earnings and debt.
- ▶ 19:38 Shane Parrish In 1817, New York State began constructing the Erie Canal, which would connect the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, while steamboats at the same time appeared on the Hudson River, offering transportation independent of wind, muscle, or…
- ▶ 22:58 Shane Parrish In 1807, after partnering with inventor Robert Fulton, they launched the first commercially successful steamboat service on the Hudson River.
- ▶ 33:56 Shane Parrish The ensuing Hudson River rate war exposed a striking contradiction with Vanderbilt. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:30 Shane Parrish Drew accepted Billy as a clerk, but demanded a favor in return, access to one of Vanderbilt's new steamboats for his Hudson River operations.
- ▶ 1:07:10 Shane Parrish Amid a fierce snowstorm that paralyzed New York State, passengers were forced to cross the frozen Hudson River at Albany on foot or hire sleighs for transportation.
#82 Bill Ackman: Getting Back Up
- ▶ 10:56 Bill Ackman We'd go walk to the Hudson River, we'd talk, and it was just nice knowing, you know, a supportive friend was looking out for me and wanted me to, uh, succeed.