Podcasts that mention 📚 The First Tycoon by T.J. Stiles

i think that um probably one of the most impactful ones that i can remember recently is around uh vanderbilt and so vanderbilt was these uh was this guy who basically without that much of an education he would invent or work with people to make these steamboats and then he had a lot of acumen around creating certain monopolies regardless of you know what was um right or wasn't right

Sergey mentions a biography about Vanderbilt (likely Cornelius Vanderbilt) as one of the most impactful ones he's read recently, discussing his life, steamboats, and monopolies.

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