Rockefeller was a human hurricane, a truly unique individual. He practically invented the modern corporation. He was also a product of his time. I don't think a comparison to any of today's tech giants could be anything more than laughably superficial.

There are plenty of ruthless people in business even today. But Rockefeller was driven by the belief that cooperation in business, rather than competition, was the way forward for society. The business he built reflected that. Eventually the world learned from his model and now business isn't quite so cutthroat.

But it took Rockefeller to create this new order. Someone so genius at business that there was no stopping him from doing anything he wanted to do. Not even the full might of the federal government could bring him low. Maybe they could have eventually, but the government's position on monopoly softened after it realized what the economies of scale it generated meant for our wartime industrial efficiency. There were other titans in that time period. Rockefeller stands above them all.