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Apache's founding edge: tax expertise, not geology

The speaker argued that Apache Corporation's initial competitive advantage was not in oil and gas geology, but in Raymond Plank's deep financial and tax knowledge, which he used to create a tax-efficient investment vehicle for wealthy clients.

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