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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 · 2020–2025
Mention timeline23 mentions
20202025
Where it's mentioned Founders · 23×
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”
#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”
2023
#330 Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)
Founders · Dec 2023
“Titan”
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”
2022
#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”
#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”
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”