Sep 2025

🎬 That’s a Wrap on Season 1 | 51

But you can still get Nick & Jack every day! Follow The Best One Yet, our daily news show delivering 3 stories in 20 minutes. Where business meets pop-culture. Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-best-one-yet/id1386234384Listen on Spotify: https://open.spot ... Show More

6m 2s

Sep 2025

📺 SNL: The Snickers Bar of Saturday Night | 50

When Johnny Carson, 1970s late-night king, declared he wanted another day off, it left NBC with a hole in their weekend lineup. 11:30pm Saturday night wasn’t exactly the hot time slot… so the network recruited a quiet Canadian comedy writer named Lorne Michaels to produce a live ... Show More

42m 25s

Sep 2025

🎧 Sony Walkman: The Analog Icon That Led to a Digital Revolution | 49

In postwar Tokyo, two engineers were tinkering with rice cookers and busted home radios when they stumbled across a new kind of audio technology: magnetic tape. It inspired them to create a range of ahead-of-their-time tape recorders — and the success took Sony from small repair ... Show More

41m 43s

Nov 2024

The Best Idea Yet 🌶️Sriracha: From Refugee to Billionaire

Follow our The Best Idea Yet, our 2nd podcast series, to get episodes like this every week:https://wondery.com/links/the-best-idea-yet/ Chances are you’ve got a bottle of Sriracha chilling in your fridge right now, but have no idea who invented it — and the spicy story of how he ... Show More

47m 57s

Sep 2025

The Great Sriracha Feud | The Only Hot Sauce Billionaire | 1

In the early 80s, David Tran developed a sauce he called Sriracha; its popularity quickly spread among chefs and customers throughout Southern California. But to grow his business, Tran needs to find a reliable source of red jalapeños. So he forms a partnership with a farm called ... Show More

38m 3s

May 2022

The hot sauce sensations

Hot sauce can inspire fervent passion in its devotees. It’s a global obsession that translates to billions of dollars of sales a year. But with so many on the market, how do you create a taste that becomes a global hit? In this programme, Ruth Alexander explores the origin storie ... Show More

27m 30s

Sep 2025

The Great Sriracha Feud | Showdown | 2

<p>The rift between David Tran’s Huy Fong Foods and Underwood Ranches becomes insurmountable. The two companies sue each other and wait for the courts to decide who was in the right. But in the meantime, Huy Fong struggles to find peppers to make their Sriracha. Me ... Show More

37m 49s

Sep 2025

The Great Sriracha Feud | If You Can't Stand the Heat | 3

Why has hot sauce gotten so - well, hot? Bon Appétit’s Joseph Hernandez sheds some light on the rise of condiment culture, and why the spicy stuff got so popular over the past ten years (even Mötley Crüe has a hot sauce line!). Later, we explore our biological reactions to spice ... Show More

43m 55s

Sep 2020

Sponsored | From Food Truck to Franchise: How David Choi Started Seoul Taco | 1

Before you’re ready for a full-fledged “Business War,” you need to start somewhere. David Choi put it all on the line and drained his bank account to buy his first food truck. Eight years later, Choi’s bold vision for Korean and Mexican fusion has made an impact on the culinary s ... Show More

15m 57s

Jan 2018

Elevating hot sauce to a new standard with Lawrence Wu

On July 31st, 2015, Lawrence decided to quit his first job out of school to pursue a hot sauce and grocery industry that was ready for change. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. Listen to those small, intimate details in conversations. 2. When things go wrong, remember there will always be a ... Show More

23m 46s

Sep 2025

MBA2680 Business Breakdowns: Cup Noodles - How One Man's Simple Idea Became a $40 Billion Empire

<p>How does a humble cup of noodles become a global icon and a multi-billion dollar brand? The story behind Cup Noodles is packed with unexpected lessons, and this episode uncovers the business brilliance that made it happen.<br /><br />This is a special Business Breakdown episod ... Show More

11m 38s

🌶️ Sriracha: From Smuggled Gold to Hot ...