Founders: #197 Founder of the Rothschild Family Dynasty

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What I learned from reading Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild by Amos Elon. ---- Founders Notes gives you the ability to tap into the collective knowledge of history's greatest entrepreneurs on demand. Use it to supplement the decisions you make in your work. Get access to Founders Notes here. ---- Riches cover a multitude of woes.Only a few crumbling bricks are left today of the dark, foul-smelling alley in Frankfurt where, in the second half of the eighteenth century, a disenfranchised Jew named Meyer Rothschild founded a European banking dynasty.Rothschild was a man of seemingly inexhaustible energy and ingenuity.He raised five famously gifted sons, veritable money-making machines, to carry on his work after him. Their names overshadowed his own and became synonymous with colossal wealth, extravagant living and hidden political power.A century after his death they would still ask, in all seriousness, if a great war was still possible in Europe if the House of Rothschild set their face against it.Rothschild's origins were certainly modest. There was little reason to foresee his destiny. The personal circumstances of his life were difficult throughout. They suggest a sag

[00:00:00] Only a few crumbling bricks are left today of the foul-smelling alley in Frankfurt, where in the second half of the 18th century, a disenfranchised Jew named Meyer Rothschild founded a European banking dynasty. Rothschild was a man of seemingly inexhaustible energy and ingenuity. He raised five famously gifted sons, veritable money-making machines, to carry on his work after him. Their names overshadowed his own and became synonymous with colossal wealth, extravagant living, and hidden political power. A century after his death, you could still ask, in all seriousness, if a great…

Founders: #197 Founder of the Rothschild Family Dynasty

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