Cornelius Vanderbilt: America’s First Tycoon

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He married his cousin and had 13 kids? …. Married his cousin? I get that incest is popular with European descendants but wow.

Nobody wants to see your face. Try removing it so we can focus on the documentary better.

A wonderful look at the Commodore,, an amazing story! To see how his descendants used the greatest fortune at the time, a fascinating look is laid out in a book "Fortune's Children: the. Fall of the House of Vanderbilt". A four generation saga that rivals Downton Abbey, but its all real!

May I introduce my lovely wife Frank and our beautiful daughters Hank, Butch, and Chuck

What a wild chaos creator

I was just at the Vanderbilt Museum on Long Island. It's crazy how many sea creature specimens he collected!!

I thought the first American tycoon was John Jacob Astor.

From this history, I do not understand why Vanderbilt would be referred to as a 'Robber Baron'. It seems that he was a strong competitor who managed to break the grip of existing monopolies by giving customers a better value for their money. I've seen worse behavior from AT&T in the phone business where the company uses its monopoly ownership of the phone lines to charge exorbitant prices.

Huh. I don't get why he didn't buy an army to so his dirty work.

This make me want a video on walker

1950 selling thing off do you mean 1850

This is just propaganda... telling a story without making any relevant questions. Massive castles built in 5-6 years that cannot be done today? mudflood windows below floor level? States 4 times bigger than Disney? Yeah... I'm also tired of being told lies.

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Had to dislike video too many f_cking ads a_shole!

Dood I love how all your hair slid off your head down to the bottom of your face. Keep up the good work brah 👍

You say he tried to form a monopoly but provided no proof of such, other than he bought railroads where he could. Any proof?

Was waiting for you to mention Walker. Mind blowing. If he'd of worked with Vanderbilt he'd of been King of Nicaragua. Didn't know about Mexican & Honduran attempts.

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For someone who was so famously frugal; such an extravagant vacation the Commodore enjoyed. 👏🏼
By today’s standards, it would’ve cost over $16 million‼️

Can we please have subtitles for the HoH. Thanks.

*1850s

Vanderbilt helped suffragist Victoria Woodhull establish her career, established Vanderbilt University and donated his flagship, his largest steamship, the Vanderbilt, to the Union cause.
Yet about his character, all we got were denunciations of how he was bad, cutthroat, “certainly no saint”, stepped on toes, ruthless in business, and was reason why he was known as first ‘Robber Baron’.
Yet what were actual examples of his ‘robbing’ or other crimes? If undercutting his competitors was taken as a crime, I doubt the traveling public would think so. His monopolies were natural monopolies where others could not afford to compete, not govt. enforced ones by competitors such as Aaron Ogden.

Yet more evidence of what Jesus said: being rich is being evil.

Without Googling it, I would bet a hundred dollars that Bezos was a BIG fan of Vanderbilt’s underpricing method.

I love this guy as a businessman, what a legend

Whoever wrote the script the Confederates never dominated the oceans they had one day with an ironclad attacking wooden ships and the next the union ironclad countered it.

The Comodore, lol.

Daniel Webster looks like me when people say "smile"

His great great grandfather was also Anthony from sale the son of jan janszoon from sale who was a Dutch Muslim convert who joined the Barbary pirates and made a lot of money attacking the coastal areas of Europe all the way up till ice land, Jan janszoon was a key player with Barbary pirates when they suck the town of Baltimore Ireland empty and key player in the white slave trade from the barbers, Anthony was the one who had all the ground where now Brooklyn New York stand 200 ha of ground and the Vanderbilt married with him

Dang, he surrendered to the US Army again. The Army must have uttered, "This guy, again...". I would have had him hanged. It is not good for business to start two illegal wars.

He looks exactly like Anderson Cooper. Surely this couldn’t be a coincidence?

History shows millions of well-known families whose wealth grew exponentially over the centuries. So, it's strange that the Vanderbilts saw their wealth decline...

You should talk about john jacob astor.

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It was William H. who first got into railroads, not his father. His father only got interested when William convinced him it was the way of the future.

This man was courageous, competitive, disciplined, driven and insanely hard working. Very admirable... Today's society is gutless, lazy, unmotivated, constantly complaining and weak. Huge contrast.

In the thumbnail he looks like Daniel Craig. He could definitely play him in a movie.

If, I did not know better I would think that this gent Cornelius Vanderbilt haves a similarity to Ralph Emerson, but like they say "everyone haves a twin." So, we are analyzing this statue and: The steamer was leaving a berth in the harbor at her usual time. Someone from the steamer hailed the sloop to luff or to put her helm down, but the sloop kept to her course, the master expressly refusing to give way. The steamer was turning when the collision happened. After considering the matter, the court refused to allow the sloop owner to recover because the sloop had brought
the injury on herself. The Cornelius C. Vanderbilt District Court, S.D. New York December, 1848, Term Case No. 3,235

I missed the part where lower prices for customers is somehow bad for them and where he would have jacked up rates after driving out competition. What i did see is that the British government used the peoples money to compete against vanderbilt even if those people that were taxed for that steam ship business never used and somehow that's okay.

Imagine being so competitive, the competition pays you to stay away.😂😂 That's business aura