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Founders Notes: Jay Gould

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Dark Genius of Wall Street Edward J. Renehan Jr. Only two obscure academic biographies for business historians, Julius Grodinsky's Jay Gould: His Business Career (1957) and Maury Klein's The Life and Legend of Jay Gould (1986), have provided balanced, substantial, and reasonable accounts of Gould's brilliant professional history. NOTE Two other books to read on Gould. Thomas Edison David Senra This is hilarious. That's the way telephones were thought of at this point in history. It's like, "Well, telegraph will transmit text. How can we get it to transmit voice?" And if you think about what early telephone is, really to this day it's like a speaking telegraph. Now this part blew my mind. Okay, so you know or you probably know I did this podcast on Jay Gould. This is back on episode 258. If you haven't listened to it, you got to listen to it. When you're done listening to this, go listen to that. Why is listening to episode 258 important? Why is studying and reading about Jay Gould important? Because if you ask Rockefeller who's the best business man he ever met, he'd said Jay Gould without hesitation. Cornelius Vanderbilt, who doesn't give out compliments for anything, said Jay Gou

Dark Genius of Wall Street Edward J. Renehan Jr. Only two obscure academic biographies for business historians, Julius Grodinsky's Jay Gould: His Business Career (1957) and Maury Klein's The Life and Legend of Jay Gould (1986), have provided balanced, substantial, and reasonable accounts of Gould's brilliant professional history. NOTE Two other books to read on Gould. Thomas Edison David Senra This is hilarious. That's the way telephones were thought of at this point in history. It's like, "Well, telegraph will transmit text. How can we get it to transmit voice?" And if you think about…

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