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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
22 Sept 2021 Acquired Standard Oil Part I
“You know how we joke about how there must have been ten people in Silicon Valley in the 1970s and 1980s. I think there must've been like 10 people in America at this point in time.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 22 Sept 2021
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Standard Oil Part I
Transcript context
…No way. The Great Hero of the Civil War. Yeah, unbelievable. You know how we joke about how there must have been ten people in Silicon Valley in the 1970s and 1980s. I think there must've been like 10 people in America at this point in time. Senator John Sherman in 1889—as the sort of public sentiment is starting to shift against this huge octopus monopoly—proposes an "Antitrust Bill" in the U.S. in the Federal Senate. It turns out that just a few years earlier when Sherman was running for office in Ohio, guess who one of his biggest campaign supporters was? Rockefeller?…
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