Breaking up AI labs wouldn't hurt: Standard Oil split tripled Rockefeller's fortune to $900M
krishnan · x · 2026-11-14
Drawing on the 1911 Standard Oil breakup — 34 companies, Rockefeller keeping a quarter of each, his fortune tripling to over $900M by 1913 — the author argues that breaking up AI labs wouldn't hurt their owners: "the cap table survives." A counterintuitive take on AI antitrust talk.
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