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David Senra · 461 episodes with transcripts

Learn from history's greatest entrepreneurs. Every week I read a biography of an entrepreneur and find ideas you can use in your work.

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#437 The Tycoons: Carnegie, Rockefeller, Gould & Morgan

October 13, 2026

David Senra (0:00)

Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan were all in their late 20s or early 30s, all on the first rungs of their careers in the waning days of the Civil War.

In an age of outsized business leaders, no others played so great a role in shaping and channeling the American boom. They forced the pace, drove the transition to ever larger scales, and imposed personal stamps on the national economy that persisted well into the 20th century.

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