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Founders: #375 The Single Biggest Individual Financier In The World. The Richest Woman In America: Hetty Green

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Hetty Green bailed out New York City. Her decisions on what interest rates to charge moved markets and were reported in major newspapers. She was a one woman bank and the single biggest individual financier in the world. She took no partners and ran her own money. She built a financial empire of stocks, bonds, railroads, and real estate. She battled the great men of her day and kept a gun on her desk. She did all of this alone. Defiantly independent and ferociously intelligent she built a vast, liquid fortune at a time when women couldn't even vote. She used her intelligence to increase her wealth, her independence to live as she wished, and her strength to battle anyone who stood in her way. This episode is what I learned from reading Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America’s First Female Tycoon by Charles Slack and The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age by Janet Wallach. ---- Ramp gives you everything you need to control spend, watch your costs, and optimize your financial operations —all on a single platform. Make history's greatest entrepreneurs proud by going to Ramp and learning how they can help your business control your costs and save more. ---- Vesto

[00:00] A: All of history's Greatest Entrepreneurs Studied history's greatest entrepreneurs Hetty Green was the smartest woman on Wall Street. She was a financial genius and the single largest individual financier in the world. And yet she made it a point to learn from people like Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, Rockefeller, JP Morgan and Jay Gold. And one thing that she had in common with them was that she had the habit of keeping track of every cent and making sure that she's getting the most value for every single dollar that she spent. One thing is clear from studying hundreds of…

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