History remembers the rulers and the leaders. We know of Napoleon, Caesar, Elizabeth,

Gingus Khan, and Captain Picard. However, for every one of the people I just listed

their success was due in large part to the people who worked underneath them,

the ones who carried out their orders and made sure things got done.

They had to have a competent number two.

In this episode I'll put forward that the greatest number two in history was Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa.

Learn more about the person who is number one at being number two on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. This episode is

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notes.

A Grippus origin story is very unlikely for a successful Roman.

He wasn't from Rome and his family wasn't in the nobility.

He was born somewhere around 62 to 64 BC, somewhere out in the provinces.

We aren't exactly sure where. Some scholars think he might have come from the region around what is today Pisa Italy.

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