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Episode 368 #368 Rockefeller’s Autobiography
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Episode 368: #368 Rockefeller’s Autobiography

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Episode 368

#368 Rockefeller’s Autobiography

David Senra is the host of Founders, where he studies history's greatest entrepreneurs. This is what he learned from rereading Random Reminiscences of Men and Events by John D. Rockefeller.

What I learned from rereading Random Reminiscences of Men and Events by John D. Rockefeller.

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#368 Rockefeller’s Autobiography

Introduction

So the book that I want to talk to you about today was published all the way back in 1909, when John D. Rockefeller was 70 years old. It's called "Random Reminiscences of Men and Events," written by John D. Rockefeller. And he wrote the book with the intention that the only readers would be his friends and family. So he actually talks about this.

There's a very short preface in the book, and he says, "It has not been my custom to press my affairs forward into public gaze. But I have come to see that if my family and friends want some record of things which might shed light on matters, it is right that I should yield to their advice, and in this informal way, go over again some of the events which have made my life interesting to me." That is the understatement of the century. Rockefeller loved secrecy.

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