Playing Commodore — Pioneering the Seas of Investment Opportunity

Trey Rallis
Sep 5, 2018 · 5 min read

In 1864 Cornelius Vanderbilt, nicknamed “The Commodore,” sold the last few vessels of his shipping fleet in order to focus on railroads. In the years prior, he had found enormous success in the shipping industry turning a single-ferry service shuttling passengers between Staten Island and Manhattan into transatlantic steamship lines commuting people and goods halfway around the…

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