Cornelius Vanderbilt: America’s First Tycoon 

Make one video about J Edgar Hoover please Hugs from Brazil

Probably regrets having kids.

Can you do a video on grand duchess Olga nikolaevna Romanov

Do king Faisal of Saudi Arabia

Seriously why is the top tenz gone? It's all been taken down. Very dissapointed!

Jonathan Aisel really? FFS

@Nesper His mother was a Vanderbilt heiress. She inherited something to the tune of $35 million in today's money.

He had a lot of kids, and only one of them ended up with "generational wealth", so you might be surprised by who and how numerous his descendants are...

I'm pretty sure Cornelius would have thrown "Sweet Pea" off his ship!

@Nesper He's a Vanderbilt by BLOOD, but not by name. If he were a citizen of a Spanish speaking country, he would also be a Vanderbilt by name.

'learned education' nice quote.

He was right though.

Smarter than a school teacher

@@loydkline4686 Without school teachers, we wouldn’t have a viable educated populace to compete globally. With the Vanderbilts, we wouldn’t have corporate monopolies and the bought Congress we have today. Conservatives have no business litigating intelligence.

Joe Coastie Is that where Vanderbilt lived?

@@billy1168 no, his grandson built the estate as a summer home.

Joe Coastie I used to work there, the opulence of that "summer house" never seized to impress me.

Something everyone should see at least once in their lives. Here in NC it is usually a fieldtrip around middle school age but i have noticed that my daughter's school hasnt had many trips there as of late (before covid-19). To really appreciate it i think it needs to be a highschool fieldtrip, as when we went in 6th grade we really couldnt appreciate its opulence for the era it was built and couldnt tell you one fact about it. Now in my older age i find myself more interested in this family and their dynasty. Never knew the actor Timothy Olyphant was a descendant of them until recently....the more you know😜

It is beautiful. It is art. It is a master piece.

I second this sentiment. Follow the money.

They’re now pretty much broke.

Thank you. I'm glad they mentioned that.

southernbellechef your right no matter the bussines your in it takes a lot of hard work to even get to the status of being a millionaire. as you pointed out it doesn't happen over night.

Lol I caught that too.

Lol considering he was long dead…

OOPS😉

Good old Simon ploughs on through every typo..

Had to play it back to make sure I wasn't crazy

He still has hair, it just migrated to his face like geese in the winter

Ah yes, the terrifying days of baby faced Simon.

He uses Dollar Shave😀

😆🤣😅

His hair fell out and landed on his face

Don't worry abe. You'll get yours, someday.

Abe!!! My man!!! Don’t worry bro you will get yours someday!! It’s not like you will be going anywhere😉

I know. I'm still waiting as well.

Yeah, Like Simon can’t wait to cross that mine field of ignorant loud mouths.

Abraham Lincoln don’t worry Simon will take a shot at it soon enough. This time it shouldn’t hurt so much.

immortal corporations

@@Jack-he8jv Vanderbilt as a brandname(and their origin family) still excist. So being “an immortal(autocorrect tried to change it to immoral lol!) corporate in itself doesn’t persé create the opposite of what Cornelis did.

Reagan.

@@kaseythornton8155 what?! Ronald Reagan is a saint. You're insane.

@@Jack-he8jv The third and fourth generation of the Vanderbilt were relatively weak and started to shift most of their time into partying and eventually made them bankrupt.

lol they run the world, they arent great either. they are smart and know how to save this planet. they take genochrome so they live longer which is why mark zuckerburg looks like a lizard. the queen also is taking this. they are soo rich the central bank is using candidates as puppets.

@@crisp8412 if you look close enough when you pour a glass of Tropicana orange juice you can see the circuit boards of a television. Diamonds aren't worth the money modern society has priced them. Ancient man was aware of these anomalies. That is why turquoise and alabaster are used in the manufacturing of things like Coca Cola and baby formula.

true

Thank you Kevin! You said it much better than I could have.

I was just about to do the same but I believe you said it

Also the armour on their ironclads was mostly improvised, such as a couple of layers of interlocked railway rails which were considerably less effective than single thickness armour that the union's industrial base was able to produce.

You beat me to it. Well said.

Yea, whoever does the research for these doesn't do a very good job. They once said the nazi ss stood for secret service

Kate Maloney Kinda weird that she is Anderson Cooper’s mother.

Who are the Getty family?

@@jamesfracasse8178 google is free

@@supermodelwannabe no I'm asking you about it not Google it

J. Edgar Hoover and ‘dick’ in the same sentence... i see what you did there Marcelo!

Marcelo Aleixo I’m pretty sure he’s already done a video on Hoover though.

@@myownboss1 this is clyde tolson's business kkkkkkkkk

Enschede 1992 and 2006.

Simon has all those already

Yes, they are motivation on the highest level.

@@johnwilliams029 Yeah, check out W.A. Clark, and his daughter in the book "Empty Mansions"!! Quite a story, and a fascinating read! Also, for a really great read, John Jacob Astor's story in the book "Astoria" is almost hard to believe, and quite an adventure!! A

@@JEANSDEMARCO i will! Thanks for letting me know! Greatingsss from The Netherlands

@@johnwilliams029 You are welcome Mark! At 30 yrs old I knew nothing about anything, so I started reading as much as I could, and at 79 yrs old, I'm still at it!! lol😀

@@JEANSDEMARCOrespect for that! God bless you!

The Monty Burns of his day.

Well better to do honest good in the name of profit than not be able to good at all.

1850's

The price cutting was only temporary. Once he had a monopoly he could jack the rates sky high. That's why monopolies are illegal. Anti free market.

"Robber baron" refers to how they exploited workers, getting rich on their misery by underpaying them, subjecting them to unsafe working conditions, and discarding them once they were injured.

@@BTScriviner compare it to the harshness of farm labour. At that time people literally fled agrarian parts of Poland to move to the UK or to grab factory jobs in the USA. Nobody forced the workers to work for Rockefellers and Carnegies. They did it voluntarily, because although tough by our standards these jobs were the best of choice that these people possessed. Capitalist countries, alas where workers were "exploited" by "robber barons" were the ones which were propelled into prosperity and the ones with higher life quality for the people- more literate people in England than Russia or Italy for example in the begging of the 20th century, as Britain was one of the first nation to attempt a capitalist experiment. "Exploitation" is the wrong term which is ironically was used by the communists- which threw people into labour camps and shot them as well as starved tens of millions of people in USSR alone. "Uplifting" would be more accurate to describe their deeds, whose actions both in providing jobs and philanthropy were significant. For instance Rockefeller almost eliminated yellow fever in western hemisphere. Nor were they "underpaying" their workers. Price in economics (be it the price of labour- which is among resources and factors of production) serves as a measure of the value of a resource, a price for an abundant resource is usually smaller and- not do to a more generous producer at all but to its abundance and due to competition to sell it. Due to the abundance of cheap labour, it obviously was worth less, as workers facing competition from other workers agreed to sell their labour for less. And not due to a "robber baron" at all but due to a logical economic reality. As for the working conditions, they improved over time, in Britain for instance this process began and excelled before a more representative government was installed. Similarly worker wages will inevitably increase if there is less workforce available- and not at all do to Saint Augustines, but due to their skills possibly increasing in value.

Tammy Rogers the video is over 20 mins long. You needed to leave an early comment about how long the video has been up instead of first watching it?

Yeah the first woman to run for president and one can only wonder what if she won

Hero of Finland burnt Stalin's mustache

Interesting story, that. Half a century after the Commodore died, one of his heirs died penniless.

Anderson Cooper

look at us nerds

Just think about how many people don't even understand what that means.

Love it🤣🤣🤣🤣

As we Americans say: You're welcome from us for defeating the Germans n saving Europe🇺🇲

@@kaogoogle1031 The American president at the time of the second world war was of Dutch decent :)

Do you really say that? In English? Does that rhyme in Dutch?

Beter dan ooit?

@@kaogoogle1031 The Russians did most of the heavy lifting and without the UK you wouldn't have had a foothold in Europe from which to launch D day

Lost with the Titanic

@@annescholey6546 no he didn't John Jacob Astor the 4th went down with the titanic his great great grandfather was American's first multi millionaire

Dude relax.. these channels are nothing more than information candy. If you want a rotund and thorough account with "no buzz" words, maybe look for a channel with a more acedemic approach. Not entertainment.

You might want to watch it again--Vanderbilt had no issues with monopolies provided his was the monopoly.

@@flatplant Or he might want to find some reich-wing propaganda channel to confirm his opinion.

Of Wimpole St

Good God are you stupid HE SAID NOOOO!

He's done a video on him already I think.

@@stephenwright8824 I searched a bit and I can't seem to find anything

The original one, not the one that's there now.