Founders

What I learned by from reading The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich by Daniel Ammann. ---- The spot market for oil was one of the most lucrative ideas of the twentieth century. [0:01] the historical events intertwined with the career of Marc Rich [5:15] how his family escapes the Nazi's [12:00] his first jobs + learning from his father + finding his vocation [14:30] learning the commodities business from A to Z [20:00] his work environment was training for entrepreneurship + how he thought about the opportunity in oil [30:30] Marc gets screwed on pay so he starts his own company [35:00] why Marc chose Switzerland as the headquarters of Marc Rich + Co. [37:00] why the invention of the spot market was important [43:00] why Marc Rich thought he was exempt from Jimmy Carter's executive order [46:15] the state of his business in 1990 [1:01:00] how to lose $172,000,000 [1:14:00] ---- Founders Notes gives you the ability to tap into the collective knowledge of history's greatest entrepreneurs on demand.