David Rosenthal: belief

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…Yeah, I guess that is what I'm arguing. What do you think? I'm not feeling strongly any different way. I think that's a really good argument. It's funny, I feel like if Peter Thiel were here as a guest with us, he would be vehemently arguing the opposite. It's the zero to ones. Yes, anybody could have done this. Yes, other people might have, but Rockefeller did it. In the absence of somebody doing it, then it might not have happened. Without all this standardization in the oil industry, then we wouldn't have had all the unbelievable lifestyle upgrades that we've all had over the last 150 years because of the advent of a unified oil ecosystem.…

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