Cornelius Vanderbilt

Harper Young       

May 5, 2022

IHSS

Mr. Roddy


    The gilded age was a period in time when The United States of America started to develop and grow at a rate that was previously unheard of. The revolution sparked opportunities for new entrepreneurs such as Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. Cornelius Vanderbilt was a native New Yorker who had a great understanding of the city's history. Vanderbilt was born into the transport industry and retained all the lessons and insight he learned through his early childhood. The knowledge he gained was most likely due to his father. His father owned a sailboat that would transport passengers across the Hudson. Vanderbilt also bought a sailboat early in his adulthood. Later in Vanderbilt's career, he saw how the opportunities in the transport industry were limitless due to its rapid growth. Vanderbilt soon started buying railroads constructed during the civil war but were never completed. He later connected the completed lines to form a vast network that would make transport by train quicker and accessible. The success of the new railroad network brought Vanderbilt great fortune. with that money; he invested in helping pioneer the steam engine. Vanderbilt designed the steam engine to fit into all his boats and new trains. Vanderbilt continuously took on new opportunities that were unexpected primarily by others, usually going against the crowd. Vanderbilt's mindset of going against others and always taking new opportunities led him to his great fortune, even becoming the richest man in the world.

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