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Cover of Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

Ron Chernow · 1998
Mentioned 38 times across 8 podcasts · 2018–2026
Mention timeline38 mentions
20182026
Where it's mentioned
2026
Inside Ryan Holiday’s $250K Reading List
The Daily Stoic · Oct 2026
“Churnous Titan Incredible”
John Morgan: Life is Luck
THE ED MYLETT SHOW · Aug 2026
“I read a book once on Rockefeller. And it's called Titan and books as big as the damn Bible”
How the Ex-Goldman CEO actually invests his own money
My First Million · Jun 2026
“For me it was Titan, and I know you did a thing with Ron Chernobyl actually I read Titan”
#869: Max Levchin, PayPal and Affirm — The Path from The Soviet Union to Building Multi-Billion Dollar Companies (Plus: Real-World Socialism vs. Capitalism)
The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2026
“Titan is a huge one. So Titan is is probably the one that's closest to like business advice. It's a bit of a like how to be ruthless, basically, but that's uh that's besides the point”
2025
#405 How Rockefeller Worked
Founders · Nov 2025
“There's a great line in his biography, Titan, that says he was not one to persist”
How to live an asymmetric life
My First Million · Oct 2025
“A book that changed my life was Titan, which is the biography of John Rockefeller”
#828: David Senra — How Extreme Winners Think and Win: Lessons from 400+ of History’s Greatest Founders and Investors (Including Buffett, Munger, Rockefeller, Jobs, Ovitz, Zell, and Names You Don’t Know But Should)
The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2025
“Everybody has read Titan by Rontrenau”
#383 Todd Graves and his $10 Billion Chicken Finger Dream
Founders · Mar 2025
“there's this great exchange that happens in This biography of Rockefeller called Titan, which is the most famous biography of Rockefeller”
#380 Four Hundred Pages of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger In Their Own Words
Founders · Feb 2025
“Munger heavily recommends reading Titan. the biography of Rockefeller written by Ron Trenow”
2024
#368 Rockefeller's Autobiography
Founders · Oct 2024
“in Ron Chanel's biography of Rockefeller Titan”
#358 I had dinner with John Mackey, Founder of Whole Foods
Founders · Jul 2024
“The second time I read Titan, which is the biography every on Rockefeller everybody knows”
#353 How To Be Rich by J. Paul Getty
Founders · Jun 2024
“I have an excellent story from Rockefeller's biography Titan, which I'll which I'll illustrate what he means there”
#352 J. Paul Getty: The Richest Private Citizen in America
Founders · Jun 2024
“And then I found another idea. in the hiring, like the actual interview process ... And then I found another idea. in”
Blake Eastman: Learn to Read Anyone
The Knowledge Project · Jan 2024
“I read I think it was Titan. Mm-hmm. Um The book and there was a lot of lessons in that book”
2023
#330 Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)
Founders · Dec 2023
“Titan”
How I Live On $25,000/Month In New York City
My First Million · Sep 2023
“I read the um Titan by John Rockefeller. And he was the richest person in the world”
David Senra - In Service of Founders - [Invest Like the Best, EP.343]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Sep 2023
“then what I do is I go in the bibliography. And in the bibliography, I'm like What is this other book published forty years ago”
Sam Zemurray (The Fish That Ate the Whale)
Founders · Sep 2023
“I re read Titan and then read another biography of Rockefeller”
A conversation with David and Ben from the Acquired podcast
Founders · Mar 2023
“if we read Titan. then we could tell, did this actually happen”
Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast)
Acquired · Mar 2023
“there's no way we read Titan. that we could tell, did this actually happen”
2022
The Annual Milly Awards: The Winners, The Losers And Everything In Between - With Andrew Wilkinson
My First Million · Dec 2022
“I read Titan a couple of years ago about John D. Rockefeller”
Ryan Holiday Reveals How Much Best Selling Authors Make, Crazy Peter Thiel Stories & More
My First Million · Oct 2022
“Anything Ron Chernobyl does, every sentence Like To me, it's like a life's work”
#256 Edward L. Bernays (Public Relations, Advertising, & Persuasion)
Founders · Jul 2022
“Until I read the bibliography. in the back of Titan”
#255 Sam Zemurray (Banana King)
Founders · Jul 2022
“I re read Titan and then read another biography of Rockefeller”
#254 John D. Rockefeller: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers
Founders · Jun 2022
“is an excerpt from the book I'm gonna talk to you about today, which is John D. The founding father of the Rockefellers, and it was written by David Freeman Hawk”
#252 Socrates
Founders · Jun 2022
“back on two hundred forty eight with the the biography of Rockefeller”
#250 Jacob Fugger (The Richest Man Who Ever Lived)
Founders · Jun 2022
“When I just spent forty hours rereading Titan. And trying to do An entire podcast just about Rockefeller's climb”
#248 John D. Rockefeller (Titan)
Founders · May 2022
“Titan, The Life of John D. Rockefeller by Ron Thernell”
#247 Henry Flagler (Rockefeller's partner)
Founders · May 2022
“I'm re reading the fantastic biography of John D. Rockefeller called Titan”
#243 Francis Greenburger (Real Estate Billionaire)
Founders · Apr 2022
“Rockefeller in h in the book Titan. Also talks about”
2021
#211 Aristotle Onassis: An Extravagant Life
Founders · Oct 2021
“It reminds me one of my favorite sentences in the book Titan, which is the biography, like the main the best m most well known biography of John D. Rockefeller”
Standard Oil Part I
Acquired · Sep 2021
“I think the perfect place to start is with one of Turnow's quotes at the very beginning in the introduction to Titan”
#203 Georges Doriot (Birth of Venture Capital)
Founders · Sep 2021
“one of the books that I read and that he read uh that he references is Titan. The biography of John D. Rockefeller”
#198 Nathan Rothschild (Rothschild Family Dynasty)
Founders · Aug 2021
“I remember in that book, Titan. Talks about I think that's founders number sixteen or eighteen somewhere”
#184 Isadore Sharp (Four Seasons)
Founders · Jun 2021
“I think it was Titan, the the biography of John D. Rockefeller Talks about even he was so frugal, even when he had you know, he was beyond wealthy”
The New York Times Company
Acquired · Feb 2021
“Titan by Ron Chernobyl”
2020
#148 John D. Rockefeller (Autobiography)
Founders · Oct 2020
“if you remember all the way back in Founders number sixteen, I covered uh it's the probably the most important biography ever written about him. It's called Titan”
2018
#35 Robert Greene: Alive Time vs. Dead Time
The Knowledge Project · Jun 2018
“I just read for the chapter I'm writing now, I'm read Ron Chernobyl's book on Rockefeller. And although Titans. Titan”