254 John D. Rockefeller: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2022-06-27
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
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Focus
“And he just, he warns you, like, you gotta be careful with who you choose as a co-founder, who you choose as…”
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People
“Uh, and he hired three people to do this.”
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Persistence
“"The gift from Gould helped to carry the company through two hard years, through the two hard years that lay ahead, and…”
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Capital
“He would leave for m- uh, many months at a time, later in life, sometimes for years at a time.”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: capital.
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