Company · Energy · founded 1870
Standard Oil
Petroleum company that grew from the Standard Oil Company (Ohio), founded in 1870 by John D. Rockefeller. It became a corporate trust in 1882 and was broken up into 34 companies after a 1911 US Supreme Court ruling.
Of the 1 person here linked to Standard Oil, 1 is a founder and 0 are still there. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.
1 person at Standard Oil
Founder Past
Role
Co-founder of Standard Oil of Ohio (1870) and head of the Standard Oil trust, 1870
Source
· high confidence. No end year recorded; Wikipedia describes decades of retirement but gives no single stepping-down date.
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John D. Rockefeller
Founder of Standard Oil
unstable lower-middle-class · some · no college