Founders#427 How Raymond Plank Built a $50 Billion Oil Company
Aug 1, 2026 · 38 min
Raymond Plank founded Apache Corporation with just $250,000 in 1954. 50 years later his company was worth $50 billion.
This episode examines the life and entrepreneurial philosophy of Raymond Plank through his memoir A Small Difference
Rather than presenting a conventional history of Apache, this episode focuses on the lessons, maxims, and beliefs Plank accumulated over seven decades in busine…