Business History

The Company That Became a Country

The Pigeons That Built a Global News Empire

How the Company Conquered the World

Sam the Banana Man: Gunboats, Coups, and United Fruit

Blockers | A Preview of Michael Lewis's New Audiobook

Hitler's Gift to the Hippies: The VW Beetle Story Part I – Rerun

King of the Roll-Ups: The Man Who Created a Trash Empire, Then Built Blockbuster Video

How Warren Buffet Built His Legacy By Finding Value No One Else Could See – Rerun

Herman Petty's Dream: The Struggles of the First Black American to Own a McDonald's

The Battle of Fort Frick and the Anarchist Assassin

Andrew Carnegie's War with his Workers

George Washington’s Trusted Tavern Guide: The Birth of the User Review

The DeLorean Saga: Fraud, Drug Deals and Marty McFly's Car

The Tangled Story of Instant Ramen

Billy Beer: When American Beer Hit Bottom, Then Bounced Back

The Printing Press: The Invention Built on Debt and Sin

The Robberiest Robber Baron: The Villainy of Jay Gould

The Factory That Was Wiped Off The Map (From Cautionary Tales)

The Nobel Winners Who Almost Crashed the Economy

A Store Owner You Can Trust: John Wanamaker, Returns and the Price Tag

The Boy Scout Who Brought us the Age of Disruption

The Reporter Who Took Down John D. Rockefeller

"Time is Money": How Ben Franklin's Sayings Created American Capitalism and Grind Culture

The Founding Father Who Got Rich in the Revolution

The Ice King: How Frederic Tudor Got Rich Shipping Ice to India

Ivar Kreuger: The Match King Behind the Biggest Fraud You’ve Never Heard Of

Did "Neutron" Jack Welch Nuke GE?

Veuve Clicquot: The Widow Who Built a Champagne Empire

Silicon Valley’s Obsession with Living Forever (with Kara Swisher)

How Lloyd’s of London Nearly Sank the Global Economy (Lloyd’s, Pt. 2)

The Insurers Who ALWAYS Paid Out: The Lloyds of London Story (Lloyd’s, Pt. 1)

Prediction Markets: The Wild History of Betting on Taylor Swift and Popes

Who Owns a Song? Bowie, McCartney, Michael Jackson and the Royalty Wars

How GM Beat Ford: The Character Flaw That Cost Henry Ford His Crown

Henry Ford Invented the Modern World... Then Got Left Behind

War, Exploration and Beer: How the Tin Can Changed the World

A&P: How America’s Biggest Grocery Chain Became Public Enemy No. 1

The Rise and Fall of Atari (and the E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Game That Sank It)

How a Bad Boss Kickstarted Silicon Valley

Sears: Cocaine Wine, Shotguns, and the World’s Tallest Tower

De-Nazifying the Love Bug: The VW Beetle Story Part II

Hitler's Gift to the Hippies: The VW Beetle Story Part I

How Jim Simons Built a Machine That Beat the Market

Warren Buffett vs. Tech: The Investing Rule That Made Him a Legend

How Warren Buffett Found Value No One Else Saw

Jesse Livermore: The Trader Who Saw the 1929 Crash Coming

How a Labor Rights Lawsuit Rocked Major League Baseball

Did Thomas Edison Eliminate His Biggest Rival? (Thomas Edison, Pt. 3)

Edison vs. Tesla: The Power War That Gave Us the Electric Chair (Thomas Edison, Pt. 2)

The Edison Invention People Don't Talk About (Thomas Edison, Pt. 1)