#54 The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
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Vanderbilt's Modus Operaandi
Vanderbilt's career as an independent steamboat entrepreneur began after Gibbons dies. In his solitary steamboat steamboat he sailed off to fight the economic war. Vanderbilt is fighting with this family called Stevens which not only knew a lot about engineering for for steamboats but they also wanted to create this new thing called the railroad. We're gonna see how he convinces he so Cornelius what he would do is he'd go into a new territory that was occupied by somebody else and start competing with him right away.
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