Titan 11: When Family & Business Collide
- Author
- NotebookLM, Ernest Prabhakar
- Published
- Fri 28 Jul 2023
- Episode Link
- https://share.transistor.fm/s/7a384bc6
Chapter 11 of Ron Chernow's biography of John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller seemingly was able to balance ruthlessness towards competitors with benevolence towards insiders, even former rivals, and especially his family.
But this compartmentalization broke down with his fickle and feckless brother Frank.
As did our podcast, when a discussion of "trust" and "failure" reopened old wounds of our own.
Is it time for us to discover a grace that Rockefeller's moralistic religion could not imagine?
