The Standard Oil Breakup Made Rockefeller Three Times Richer

The Supreme Court broke Standard Oil into 34 companies in 1911, but the decree only handed every shareholder the same slice of each piece, so the punishment raised the value of what Rockefeller owned and the trust's own headquarters at 26 Broadway kept running the largest successor. In this documentary: Nine hundred million dollars The address Decision one: the rebate Decision two: the trust nobody could see Decision three: the first breakup The woman with the documents The ruling The pieces The judge who said so Who stayed in the building The lamp on the roof What the pieces became The question Going Concern is a channel of long-form documentaries about companies, the decisions behind them and how they ended. This one is about Standard Oil. Questions this film answers: what happened to standard oil standard oil documentary standard oil company historia standard oil history standard oil history channel standard oil extra history Image credits: Heart of the Standard Oil Plant, 1915 - Whiting, Indiana (51931710614).jpg by Steve Shook from Moscow, Idaho, USA, BY, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Offices of Standard Oil Company, circa 1910 - Whiting, Indiana (4231074228).jpg by Steve Shook from Moscow, Idaho, USA, BY, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... South End of Standard Oil Plant, circa 1912 - Whiting, Indiana (52403656156).jpg by Steve Shook from Moscow, Idaho, USA, BY, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... 26 Broadway 006.jpg by Kidfly182, BY, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... 26 Broadway 005.jpg by Kidfly182, BY, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Mobil Pegasus - Minden, Louisiana, May 2011.jpg by Steve Snodgrass, BY, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... 26 Broadway 008.jpg by Kidfly182, BY, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... 26 Broadway 009.jpg by Kidfly182, BY, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Broadway tower Edit1.jpg by Newton2 Edit by: Arad, BY, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Standard Oil Station, Defiance, MO.jpg by Paul Sableman, BY, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Standard Oil Tank Truck.jpg by Kevin from Oklahoma, USA, BY, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... New York Bowling Green anagoria.jpg by Anagoria, BY, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... 0:00 Nine hundred million dollars 0:36 The address 1:40 Decision one: the rebate 3:37 Decision two: the trust nobody could see 4:54 Decision three: the first breakup 6:12 The woman with the documents 7:46 The ruling 9:06 The pieces 10:21 The judge who said so 10:58 Who stayed in the building 12:02 The lamp on the roof 12:34 What the pieces became 13:22 The question