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Great Business Stories
Nick Leeson — The Barrow Boy Who Bankrupted a Bank
This is a story I was completely enthralled by when it broke back in 1995. Leeson’s face was splashed across every newspaper in the days after he disappeared, having brought down Barings Bank by concealing massive losses and then trying to trade his way out of trouble — only to end up losing £827 million- about $1.3 billion.It was nearly 30 years ago now, so I’d forgotten most of the details, which made revisiting it all the more fun. It’s a cracking story. Enjoy.
2026-01-28
29 min
Great Business Stories
Sean Parker: The Vilified Visionary of the Valley
Like most of you, my perception of Parker was as a reckless party boy who somehow inserted himself into 3 of the most influential internet companies—Napster, Facebook and Spotify. Through the movie The Social Network, he's come to be seen as scheming and duplicitous. But that's not the guy I found when I dug deeper—the real Sean Parker is more nuanced and all the better for it. It's a cracking episode, enjoy.
2026-01-21
30 min
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Bernard Arnault: 1949–1997
This has been one of my favourite stories to research — because this story is just that good. It begins with a young engineer running a small construction company, he has an epiphany in the back of a New York taxi.From there, it unfolds through boardroom upheavals, aggressively structured deals, and a long-term vision that never wavered. What sets Arnault apart isn't just the finance or tactics — it's the creativity you rarely see in a business titan.It's a cracking story. Enjoy.
2026-01-14
31 min
Great Business Stories
Chamath Palihapitiya: Lofty Ideals, Calculated Moves
Promoted at just 26 to head AOL’s messaging platform, then spearheaded Facebook's growth helping to grow it from 15 million users to 840 million, buying 10% of the Golden State Warriors for just $25 million, being the public face of SPACs- a move that tarnished his reputation, co-hosting the massively popular All-In podcast, and just in the last few weeks, making billions from a very early AI investment- it’s a cracking story- enjoy.
2026-01-07
30 min
Great Business Stories
Sir James Goldsmith – From Corporate Raiding to Political Crusading
Here's a guy who won the equivalent of £350,000 on a horse race when he was just 16 years old, made international headlines at 21 for eloping with the daughter of one of the world's richest men, employed 400 people by the time he was 23, and went on to become one of the most ruthless and cunning corporate raiders in the US during the 80s, and then emerged in the 90s as one of the most prominent anti-globalisation and anti-EU voices, helping to lay the foundation for what would become Brexit. And all the while publicly juggling his time between his ex-wife, his c...
2025-12-31
31 min
Great Business Stories
Jesse Livermore: The Best Trader Ever?
I wanted to dig into Livermore’s story ever since i came across him in the episode we did on short sellers- and what a story this is- he became a full time trader the age of 16, he built his own system that earned him billions in today's money, but so many times he didn’t follow his own system and went broke and bankrupt many times. This is the guy who shorted the 1929 crash and made over $2 billion from it. It’s a fascinating story- enjoy
2025-12-24
28 min
Great Business Stories
Tony Hsieh: The Man Who Sold Happiness
Hsieh sold his first company when he was just 26 years old for $265 million. He then built Zappos into an online retailing giant from zero revenue to $2 billion dollars and in doing so he really did revolutionise online business by offering the type of customer service that was unheard of back- free shipping both ways, 365 day returns. He wrote a book that that stayed at number 1 for 27 weeks, and put $350 million dollars of his own money into redeveloping downtown las vagasBut behind the success was a man chasing something he could never quite catch—trying to engineer ha...
2025-12-17
31 min
Great Business Stories
The Richest Man in the World You've Never Heard Of
This is the amazing story of Yoshiaki Tsutsumi (tsoo-TSOO-mee)- who for 4 years solid from 1987-1990 was ranked the richest person in the world, the most powerful and probably revered business person in Japan throughout the 70’s and 80’s. And yet for all his wealth and power, there is very little known about him- but what we do know his rise and very public fall- because there is a big fall, make for a fascinating story- it’s a cracking episode - enjoy
2025-12-10
30 min
Great Business Stories
Mark Cuban - The Lucky Billionaire
I’m being a bit flippant here because this is a guy who worked hard for his money- he became a millionaire at 31 and then proceeded to build a company that had the most successful IPO opening day in history up to that point, and within 9 months of that IPO he sold the company for $5.7 billion becoming a billionaire- yet astonishingly at the time of the sale that company has revenues of just $40 million. How did he manage that?He then did what every sports fan would dream of doing and bought his favourite basketball team and tu...
2025-12-03
29 min
Great Business Stories
Sam Waksal: The Improbable Rise, Fall & Redemption
2001 was Sam Waksal’s year.Seven years after discovering Erbitux — the so-called wonder drug — everything seemed to be falling into place. The drug had made it onto the cover of Business Week, Waksal’s company ImClone’s stock was at record highs, and he was living like a celebrity. There were photographs of him with Mick Jagger, Lorraine Bracco, Matthew Modine. He was best friends with Martha Stewart, dated her daughter Alexis for years, and he’d just sold $111 million worth of shares.To anyone watching, Waksal looked like the golden boy of biotech — a scientist-turn...
2025-11-26
30 min
Great Business Stories
Jeff Bezos: 1964-1999
It was the autumn of 1996. Jeff Bezos had just raised eight million dollars, putting Amazon’s valuation at around sixty million. Revenue that year was $15.7 million, small yes, but growing at a huge rate and it had caught the attention of two men who’d built an empire out of books the old-fashioned way — Leonard and Stephen Riggio, founders of Barnes & Noble.Their chain was the heavyweight of American bookselling: hundreds of superstores, nearly two billion dollars in annual sales, and a reputation for crushing smaller rivals.That autumn, the Riggio brothers invited Jeff Bezos to din...
2025-11-19
29 min
Great Business Stories
Jeff Bezos 1964-1999
It was the autumn of 1996. Jeff Bezos had just raised eight million dollars, putting Amazon’s valuation at around sixty million. Revenue that year was $15.7 million, small yes, but growing at a huge rate and it had caught the attention of two men who’d built an empire out of books the old-fashioned way — Leonard and Stephen Riggio, founders of Barnes & Noble.Their chain was the heavyweight of American bookselling: hundreds of superstores, nearly two billion dollars in annual sales, and a reputation for crushing smaller rivals.That autumn, the Riggio brothers invited Jeff Bezos to din...
2025-11-19
28 min
Great Business Stories
Sandy Weill: Building and Breaking the World’s Largest Bank
Throughout my 20’s Weill was a constant presence in the business magazines that I read because he was always doing deals, always adding a little bit more to his growing business and it all added up because by the turn of the century he had built the biggest bank in the world- a remarkable achievement- but he didn’t do it all on his own- he had his protege- Jamie Dimon, without doubt the most influential and powerful banker of the last 20 years. I dig into Weill's early years when he built his first business, sold it and then thro...
2025-11-12
30 min
Great Business Stories
Sandy Weill: Building and Breaking the World’s Largest Bank
Throughout my 20’s Weill was a constant presence in the business magazines that I read because he was always doing deals, always adding a little bit more to his growing business and it all added up because by the turn of the century he had built the biggest bank in the world- a remarkable achievement- but he didn’t do it all on his own- he had his protege- Jamie Dimon, without doubt the most influential and powerful banker of the last 20 years. I dig into Weill's early years when he built his first business, sold it and then thro...
2025-11-12
29 min
Great Business Stories
Michael Dell: My favourite business person?
I’m sure I’ll come across other people I admire for their business acumen but after researching Dell for this episode, he’s at the top- one of these people who is just brilliant at businessAt 16, he made more money in one summer than his teachers made all year.At 18, he was building computers in a dorm room with sales reaching up to $80,000 some monthsBy 27 he was the youngest CEO ever to lead a Fortune 500 company. He did it by always thinking about how to consistently eliminate unnecessary steps. But h...
2025-11-05
30 min
Great Business Stories
Michael Dell: My favourite business person?
I’m sure I’ll come across other people I admire for their business acumen but after researching Dell for this episode, he’s at the top- one of these people who is just brilliant at businessAt 16, he made more money in one summer than his teachers made all year.At 18, he was building computers in a dorm room with sales reaching up to $80,000 some monthsBy 27 he was the youngest CEO ever to lead a Fortune 500 company. He did it by always thinking about how to consistently eliminate unnecessary steps. But h...
2025-11-05
28 min
Great Business Stories
Reid Hoffman: From Role Player to Master Networker
Most of us know who Reid Hoffman is- I thought I knew a good bit about him before we did that episode on PayPal, but it was while researching that episode that I found out just how smart and how strategic he is. He was one of the first people in silicon valley to understand the potential of the internet to build social networks- he was one of the very first investors in Friendster and in Facebook and of course he built LinkedIn, selling it to Microsoft for $26 billion. He was a founding investor in Open AI, one of...
2025-10-29
31 min
Great Business Stories
Reid Hoffman: From Role Player to Master Networker
Most of us know who Reid Hoffman is- I thought I knew a good bit about him before we did that episode on PayPal, but it was while researching that episode that I found out just how smart and how strategic he is. He was one of the first people in silicon valley to understand the potential of the internet to build social networks- he was one of the very first investors in Friendster and in Facebook and of course he built LinkedIn, selling it to Microsoft for $26 billion. He was a founding investor in Open AI, one of...
2025-10-29
30 min
Great Business Stories
Gautam Adani: From Diamond Trader to Billionaire Tycoon
He was once the second richest man on Earth — richer than Bezos, Arnault, Buffet. He left school at 15 and over the last 50 years he has built a huge empire spanning ports, power plants, airports, his success fuelled by risk, relentlessness, and a powerful friendship with India’s prime minister.I knew about Adani for a while but it only when I mentioned him briefly when I was talking about the Hindenburg Group in the episode on Short Sellers that i thought I’d love to cover this guy- and his story is so well worth it- there’s billio...
2025-10-22
32 min
Great Business Stories
Gautam Adani: From Diamond Trader to Billionaire Tycoon
He was once the second richest man on Earth — richer than Bezos, Arnault, Buffet. He left school at 15 and over the last 50 years he has built a huge empire spanning ports, power plants, airports, his success fuelled by risk, relentlessness, and a powerful friendship with India’s prime minister.I knew about Adani for a while but it only when I mentioned him briefly when I was talking about the Hindenburg Group in the episode on Short Sellers that i thought I’d love to cover this guy- and his story is so well worth it- there’s billio...
2025-10-22
31 min
Great Business Stories
Leon Black: Master of the Universe Undone
Black made billions with junk bonds, complex financial engineering, buying bankrupt companies and turning them around- he was aggressive, ruthless and very good at what he did.He was Michael Milken’s right hand man. After Milken went to jail, Black built Apollo - an asset manager overseeing $850 billion. He bought the painting The Scream for $120 million. And now he’s forced to explain why he paid Jeffrey Epstein $158 million —after Epstein had served jail time.It’s a cracking episode—enjoy.
2025-10-15
31 min
Great Business Stories
Leon Black: Master of the Universe Undone
Black made billions with junk bonds, complex financial engineering, buying bankrupt companies and turning them around- he was aggressive, ruthless and very good at what he did.He was Michael Milken’s right hand man. After Milken went to jail, Black built Apollo - an asset manager overseeing $850 billion. He bought the painting The Scream for $120 million. And now he’s forced to explain why he paid Jeffrey Epstein $158 million —after Epstein had served jail time.It’s a cracking episode—enjoy.
2025-10-15
29 min
Great Business Stories
Tulip Mania- The World’s First Financial Bubble?
I love business stories from any time- as long as it’s full of drama, success or failure, interesting characters, I don’t care if it a year old or 1000 years old, and the Tulip Bubble from the 1700’s has drama in spades- I’ve always wanted to dig into it because tulipmania is remembered as the first market bubble. I mean picture the scene, january of 1637, in taverns across Holland, fortunes were made and lost on flowers that bloomed for just one week a year. Men traded houses, farms, for a single bulb. The story has been told for cent...
2025-10-08
30 min
Great Business Stories
Tulip Mania- The World’s First Financial Bubble?
I love business stories from any time- as long as it’s full of drama, success or failure, interesting characters, I don’t care if it a year old or 1000 years old, and the Tulip Bubble from the 1700’s has drama in spades- I’ve always wanted to dig into it because tulipmania is remembered as the first market bubble. I mean picture the scene, january of 1637, in taverns across Holland, fortunes were made and lost on flowers that bloomed for just one week a year. Men traded houses, farms, for a single bulb. The story has been told for cent...
2025-10-08
29 min
Great Business Stories
Adnan Khashoggi and the Business of Corruption
Khashoggi has been on my radar since I was a teenager-because he was always in the photos at the best parties- this 5 foot 4, bald Saudi businessman surrounded by the rich, the famous and of course beautiful women. Back then he was described as being one the richest men in the world — he was certainly the biggest spender. He threw the biggest parties, owned 3 jets and built the world’s most expensive yacht.But behind the glamour was something darker. He brokered billion-dollar arms deals, sent escorts to charm world leaders, and helped dictators stash their stolen fortunes and a...
2025-10-01
34 min
Great Business Stories
Adnan Khashoggi and the Business of Corruption.
Khashoggi has been on my radar since I was a teenager-because he was always in the photos at the best parties- this 5 foot 4, bald Saudi businessman surrounded by the rich, the famous and of course beautiful women. Back then he was described as being one the richest men in the world — he was certainly the biggest spender. He threw the biggest parties, owned 3 jets and built the world’s most expensive yacht.But behind the glamour was something darker. He brokered billion-dollar arms deals, sent escorts to charm world leaders, and helped dictators stash their stolen fortunes and a...
2025-10-01
32 min
Great Business Stories
Dietrich Mateschitz: The Yeti Behind Red Bull
I wanted to cover this story because I’m a huge Formula 1 fan—and if you follow F1, you can’t ignore Red Bull. And I knew the bones of the story, about how Mateschitz took a weird Thai tonic for truck drivers and turned it into a multi billion dollar global empire.But he did more than just launch a product- he created a whole new category—and then to promote it, he didn’t just attach red bull to extreme sports- Red Bull became a part of extreme sp...
2025-09-24
35 min
Great Business Stories
Dietrich Mateschitz: The Yeti Behind Red Bull
I wanted to cover this story because I’m a huge Formula 1 fan—and if you follow F1, you can’t ignore Red Bull. And I knew the bones of the story, about how Mateschitz took a weird Thai tonic for truck drivers and turned it into a multi billion dollar global empire.But he did more than just launch a product- he created a whole new category—and then to promote it, he didn’t just attach red bull to extreme sports- Red Bull became a part of extreme sp...
2025-09-24
34 min
Great Business Stories
Harley Davidson: The Rise and Fall of a great American brand
it's the story of how two childhood friends bolted a motor to a bicycle — and more or less ignited a cultural revolution because over the next century, Harley-Davidson became a symbol of rebellion, of freedom and of AmericaBut behind the myth, the company has had a turbulent time. There were strikes, near-bankruptcy, Japanese rivals, political trade wars, and even Warren Buffett riding to the rescue.Today, Harley is still the most famous name in motorcycles... and yet it’s in dire straits, it’s big bike sales have been dwindling and it’s move to modern...
2025-09-17
33 min
Great Business Stories
Harley Davidson: The Rise and Fall of a great American brand
it's the story of how two childhood friends bolted a motor to a bicycle — and more or less ignited a cultural revolution because over the next century, Harley-Davidson became a symbol of rebellion, of freedom and of AmericaBut behind the myth, the company has had a turbulent time. There were strikes, near-bankruptcy, Japanese rivals, political trade wars, and even Warren Buffett riding to the rescue.Today, Harley is still the most famous name in motorcycles... and yet it’s in dire straits, it’s big bike sales have been dwindling and it’s move to modern...
2025-09-17
32 min
Great Business Stories
Steve Wynn: From Casino Royalty to Exile
I’ve wanted to cover Wynn for ages because this is the guy who built modern day Vegas- make no mistake about it-He took Vegas from its mob and gambling roots into a resort destination focused on luxuries, high-end amenities and family-friendly spectacles. The Vegas we see today was built and shaped by Wynn- his vision, his ambition, his attention to detail. And then after 50- years being at the very top of the food chain in Vegas, it all came crashing down- literally overnight. It’s a fascinating story- enjoySubscribe now to acce...
2025-09-10
28 min
Great Business Stories
Steve Wynn: From Casino Royalty to Exile
I’ve wanted to cover Wynn for ages because this is the guy who built modern day Vegas- make no mistake about it-He took Vegas from its mob and gambling roots into a resort destination focused on luxuries, high-end amenities and family-friendly spectacles. The Vegas we see today was built and shaped by Wynn- his vision, his ambition, his attention to detail. And then after 50- years being at the very top of the food chain in Vegas, it all came crashing down- literally overnight. It’s a fascinating story- enjoy
2025-09-10
26 min
Great Business Stories
Bill Hwang, The Fastest Fortune Ever Lost
He was once a star trader with Julian Robertson's Tiger Capital, he then left and set up his own Asian hedge fund only to fall into trouble, charged with insider trading, come out of that scandal, build a personal fortune estimated at $20 billion, became known within Wall Street as the greatest investor you’ve never heard of.” and then loses it all, within a matter of days- who was Bill Hwang, where did it all go wrong for him , and even more importantly, at least for me how this story shines a light on what is a ticking timebomb that...
2025-09-03
29 min
Great Business Stories
Bill Hwang, The Fastest Fortune Ever Lost
He was once a star trader with Julian Robertson's Tiger Capital, he then left and set up his own Asian hedge fund only to fall into trouble, charged with insider trading, come out of that scandal, build a personal fortune estimated at $20 billion, became known within Wall Street as the greatest investor you’ve never heard of.” and then loses it all, within a matter of days- who was Bill Hwang, where did it all go wrong for him , and even more importantly, at least for me how this story shines a light on what is a ticking timebomb that...
2025-09-03
27 min
Great Business Stories
Marc Andreessen: Founder, Funder, Fanatic
When he was just 24 years old Andreesen launched Netscape, the browser and company that kicked off what became the dot com boom, became a multi millionaire and took on Bill Gates and Microsoft - and he lost.Then he started a new company, right as the bubble burst, and pivoted and persevered until he sold it and made another fortune. And then he started a16z, one of the most powerful venture capital firms in the world. And along the way he has had numerous controversies while also setting himself up as this very powerful kind of...
2025-08-27
31 min
Great Business Stories
Marc Andreessen: Founder, Funder, Fanatic
When he was just 24 years old Andreesen launched Netscape, the browser and company that kicked off what became the dot com boom, became a multi millionaire and took on Bill Gates and Microsoft - and he lost.Then he started a new company, right as the bubble burst, and pivoted and persevered until he sold it and made another fortune. And then he started a16z, one of the most powerful venture capital firms in the world. And along the way he has had numerous controversies while also setting himself up as this very powerful kind of...
2025-08-27
28 min
Great Business Stories
Webvan: My Favourite Business Failure
To clarify the title- I don’t love the Webvan story because it failed- I don’t like to see any company fail, but because the story behind Webvan is the story of the internet boom, those 5 years from 1995-2000 when me and my friends were young, eager, hungry and the internet opened up so many opportunities for us. And the Webvan story, it’s ambition, it’s scale, it’s stated purpose to replace grocery shopping- yes pretty mundane but also hugely impactful, and it’s demise was so fast a, it makes for a fascinating story set in a time th...
2025-08-20
30 min
Great Business Stories
Webvan: My Favourite Business Failure
To clarify the title- I don’t love the Webvan story because it failed- I don’t like to see any company fail, but because the story behind Webvan is the story of the internet boom, those 5 years from 1995-2000 when me and my friends were young, eager, hungry and the internet opened up so many opportunities for us. And the Webvan story, it’s ambition, it’s scale, it’s stated purpose to replace grocery shopping- yes pretty mundane but also hugely impactful, and it’s demise was so fast a, it makes for a fascinating story set in a time th...
2025-08-20
28 min
Great Business Stories
The Jensen Huang Story: From Toilet Scrubber to Tech Titan
At age nine, Jensen Huang couldn’t speak English and was scrubbing toilets in a Kentucky reform school. By 35, he’d taken Nvidia public. And by 60, he’d built the most valuable company on Earth.How?By betting everything—twice—on markets that didn’t even exist yet. First gaming. Then AI.He convinced Sega to pay him not to deliver a chip. He built a million-selling chip in eight months, when the industry standard was two years. Now, with Nvidia powering the AI revolution, the world runs on chips bearing his...
2025-08-13
32 min
Great Business Stories
The Jensen Huang Story-From Toilet Scrubber to Tech Titan
At age nine, Jensen Huang couldn’t speak English and was scrubbing toilets in a Kentucky reform school. By 35, he’d taken Nvidia public. And by 60, he’d built the most valuable company on Earth.How?By betting everything—twice—on markets that didn’t even exist yet. First gaming. Then AI.He convinced Sega to pay him not to deliver a chip. He built a million-selling chip in eight months, when the industry standard was two years. Now, with Nvidia powering the AI revolution, the world runs on chips bearing his vision.This is...
2025-08-13
30 min
Great Business Stories
Victor Posner: Junk Bonds, Pension Raids, and Pure Greed
Have you even heard of Victor Posner? I hadn’t but if you’re a fan of this show, you’ll know that one of mine and Keith’s favorite books of all time is Barbarians at the Gate, a rip roaring story about a leveraged buy-out and attempted hostile take over of RJR Nabisko from the 1980’s. So I love the drama around hostile takeovers, and I wanted to find out- who first started hostile takeovers in the 20th century, and it turned out to be this guy Victor Posner, I can say that I’d never come across such...
2025-08-06
29 min
Great Business Stories
Victor Posner: Junk Bonds, Pension Raids, and Pure Greed
Have you even heard of Victor Posner? I hadn’t but if you’re a fan of this show, you’ll know that one of mine and Keith’s favorite books of all time is Barbarians at the Gate, a rip roaring story about a leveraged buy-out and attempted hostile take over of RJR Nabisko from the 1980’s. So I love the drama around hostile takeovers, and I wanted to find out- who first started hostile takeovers in the 20th century, and it turned out to be this guy Victor Posner, I can say that I’d never come across such...
2025-08-06
31 min
Great Business Stories
Pavel Durov: Putin’s Tech Bro or Tech Foe?
In 2012, Russian special forces arrived at Pavel Durov’s door—automatic rifles in hand. He didn’t answer and curiously, they left. They were there because Durov had built VK, Russia’s answer to Facebook, and was refusing Kremlin demands to take down certain pages. It made him a symbol of resistance. Or so the legend goes.The truth? It’s difficult to say with any certainty. He called himself a defender of privacy, but quietly handed over user data in India. He raised $1.7 billion for a blockchain dream, only to have it shut down by the SEC. And i...
2025-07-30
31 min
Great Business Stories
Pavel Durov: Putin’s Tech Bro or Tech Foe?
In 2012, Russian special forces arrived at Pavel Durov’s door—automatic rifles in hand. He didn’t answer and curiously, they left. They were there because Durov had built VK, Russia’s answer to Facebook, and was refusing Kremlin demands to take down certain pages. It made him a symbol of resistance. Or so the legend goes.The truth? It’s difficult to say with any certainty. He called himself a defender of privacy, but quietly handed over user data in India. He raised $1.7 billion for a blockchain dream, only to have it shut down by the SEC. And i...
2025-07-30
29 min
Great Business Stories
Estée Lauder The Makeover Queen
I love this story and I kinda love Estee lauderIn 1953, she told the world she’d found a secret recipe that she called Youth Dew —gifted by her uncle to a Russian princess. In truth? It was bath oil from an ex-boyfriend's lab. But the scent was sultry, the price was right, and women couldn’t get enough. And Youth dew would go on to pull in $150 million a year.She claimed her father was a European aristocrat who wore gloves on Sundays. Actually? He ran a hardware store in Queens.But she wa...
2025-07-23
32 min
Great Business Stories
Estée Lauder The Makeover Queen
I love this story and I kinda love Estee lauderIn 1953, she told the world she’d found a secret recipe that she called Youth Dew —gifted by her uncle to a Russian princess. In truth? It was bath oil from an ex-boyfriend's lab. But the scent was sultry, the price was right, and women couldn’t get enough. And Youth dew would go on to pull in $150 million a year.She claimed her father was a European aristocrat who wore gloves on Sundays. Actually? He ran a hardware store in Queens.But she wa...
2025-07-23
30 min
Great Business Stories
Marvel: The Empire That Almost Didn’t Happen
What if I told you that the greatest cinematic universe of the 21st century almost went out of business because of the views of an influential psychiatrist. Or that in 1996 it went bankrupt because of the reckless ambitions of the guy behind Revlon, the cosmetics brand?And that one of the bondholders during the bankruptcy proceedings included the legendary and feared corporate raider Carl Icahn, who ended up getting outsmarted by the guys who eventually sold Marvel to Disney for $4 billion.This isn’t just the story of superheroes. It’s the story of scrappy pulp magazines, of A...
2025-07-16
25 min
Great Business Stories
Marvel: The Empire That Almost Didn’t Happen
What if I told you that the greatest cinematic universe of the 21st century almost went out of business because of the views of an influential psychiatrist. Or that in 1996 it went bankrupt because of the reckless ambitions of the guy behind Revlon, the cosmetics brand?And that one of the bondholders during the bankruptcy proceedings included the legendary and feared corporate raider Carl Icahn, who ended up getting outsmarted by the guys who eventually sold Marvel to Disney for $4 billion.This isn’t just the story of superheroes. It’s the story of scrappy pulp magazines, of A...
2025-07-16
22 min
Great Business Stories
Mike Ashley: Ruthless, Reckless, Chaotic and Cunning
For all non Irish and UK listeners who mightn’t be aware of Mike Ashely, the billionaire retailer, than you're really in for a treat from alcohol fuelled meetings, to corporate espionage, this story of one of the UK’s most successful businessmen is a cracker, enjoySubscribe now to access the longer co-hosted episodes released on the 1st of every month as well as lots of bonus episodes and ad free weekly episodes.Subscribe via Spotify Subscriptions, Apple Subscriptions or on Patreon by clicking on this link or going to patreon.com/greatbusinessstories
2025-07-09
30 min
Great Business Stories
Mike Ashley: Ruthless, Reckless, Chaotic and Cunning
For all non Irish and UK listeners who mightn’t be aware of Mike Ashely, the billionaire retailer, than you're really in for a treat from alcohol fuelled meetings, to corporate espionage, this story of one of the UK’s most successful businessmen is a cracker, enjoy
2025-07-09
29 min
Great Business Stories
Palmer Luckey: The Rebel Engineer Behind America’s AI Army.
This is the story of Palmer Luckey the guy who single handedly kickstarted modern virtual reality barefoot, in a garage, surrounded by a Frankenstein mess of hacked GameCubes and government-surplus headsets. He then sold his 2 year old company to facebook for $2 billion and was then controversially kicked out of Facebook. But he bounced back by founding a defense tech company named after Aragorn’s sword in Lord of the Rings—a startup now worth $28 billion, quietly rewriting the rules of modern warfare with AI-powered drones and virtual border walls.This is the fascinating story of a flip-flop-wearing, cons...
2025-07-02
26 min
Great Business Stories
Palmer Luckey: The Rebel Engineer Behind America’s AI Army.
This is the story of Palmer Luckey the guy who single handedly kickstarted modern virtual reality barefoot, in a garage, surrounded by a Frankenstein mess of hacked GameCubes and government-surplus headsets. He then sold his 2 year old company to facebook for $2 billion and was then controversially kicked out of Facebook. But he bounced back by founding a defense tech company named after Aragorn’s sword in Lord of the Rings—a startup now worth $28 billion, quietly rewriting the rules of modern warfare with AI-powered drones and virtual border walls.This is the fasc...
2025-07-02
23 min
Great Business Stories
Nolan Bushnell: The Godfather of Gaming
This is such a wild story, like the very first Atari product was a wooden cabinet, with two knobs, and a piece of paper stuck onto it that read “Avoid Missing Ball For High Score.” Their first expansion plan involved literally sawing a hole in the wall to steal office space next door. And what if I told you that the same man who invented modern gaming also created the Chuck E Cheese chain of pizza joints. And he also turned down the opportunity to invest $50,000 for one third of Apple. The story of Nolan Bushnell is a hel...
2025-06-25
28 min
Great Business Stories
Nolan Bushnell: The Godfather of Gaming
This is such a great story, like the very first Atari product was a wooden cabinet, with two knobs, and a piece of paper stuck onto it that read “Avoid Missing Ball For High Score.” Their first expansion plan involved literally sawing a hole in the wall to steal office space next door. And what if I told you that the same man who invented modern gaming also created the Chuck E Cheese chain of pizza joints. And he also turned down the opportunity to invest $50,000 for one third of Apple. The story of Nolan Bushnell is a hel...
2025-06-25
26 min
Great Business Stories
Yvon Chouinard of Patagonia: Blacksmith, Climber, Capitalist (Sort Of).
Welcome to the story of Yvon Chouinard and Patagonia — a company born in a tin shed, raised on anti-consumerism, and transformed into one of the boldest business experiments of the 21st century. Buckle up.Subscribe now to access the longer co-hosted episodes released on the 1st of every month as well as lots of bonus episodes and ad free weekly episodes.Subscribe via Spotify Subscriptions, Apple Subscriptions or on Patreon by clicking on this link or going to patreon.com/greatbusinessstories
2025-06-18
29 min
Great Business Stories
Yvon Chouinard of Patagonia: Blacksmith, Climber, Capitalist (Sort Of).
Welcome to the story of Yvon Chouinard and Patagonia — a company born in a tin shed, raised on anti-consumerism, and transformed into one of the boldest business experiments of the 21st century. Buckle up.
2025-06-18
26 min
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Sparkle and Sin: The True Story of Diamonds
This is fascinating episode where we do a brief history of diamonds- what are the biggest, most valuable diamonds, and then we dig into some of the key people -how Cecil Rhodes built De Beers into a diamond monopoly, how Ernest Oppenheimer transformed diamonds by more or less inventing the concept of the diamond engagement ring, how Beny Steinmetz who built a $6 billion fortune has seen that dwindle and faces extradition and jail terms in different jurisdictions, and how the emergence of lab grown diamonds has exploded in the last decade- it’s a fantastic episode with so many dif...
2025-06-11
29 min
Great Business Stories
Sparkle and Sin: The True Story of Diamonds
This is fascinating episode where we do a brief history of diamonds- what are the biggest, most valuable diamonds, and then we dig into some of the key people -how Cecil Rhodes built De Beers into a diamond monopoly, how Ernest Oppenheimer transformed diamonds by more or less inventing the concept of the diamond engagement ring, how Beny Steinmetz who built a $6 billion fortune has seen that dwindle and faces extradition and jail terms in different jurisdictions, and how the emergence of lab grown diamonds has exploded in the last decade- it’s a fantastic episode with so many dif...
2025-06-11
27 min
Great Business Stories
Paul Graham of Y Combinator: The Best Investor Ever
I love covering stories where it’s just about how someone does something differently, has a different worldview, and then uses that to have such a big and positive impact. I came across Paul Graham when I read the excellent book The Power Law by Sebastian Mallaby —it’s full of great stories from the world of venture capital. Before I read it, I had heard of Y Combinator, but I’d never dug into its foundation. But Mallaby, in his book, does—and it’s fascinating. So I was so happy to do a bit more d...
2025-06-04
30 min
Great Business Stories
Paul Graham of Y Combinator: The Best Investor Ever
I love covering stories where it’s just about how someone does something differently, has a different worldview, and then uses that to have such a big and positive impact. I came across Paul Graham when I read the excellent book The Power Law by Sebastian Mallaby —it’s full of great stories from the world of venture capital. Before I read it, I had heard of Y Combinator, but I’d never dug into its foundation. But Mallaby, in his book, does—and it’s fascinating. So I was so happy to do a bit more d...
2025-06-04
27 min
Great Business Stories
R. Foster Winans and the WSJ Scandal
What if I told you that one of the biggest insider trading scandals in Wall Street in the 1980s wasn’t orchestrated by a hedge fund titan or a corrupt CEO, but by a charming underpaid journalist for the Wall Street Journal who ruined his ruined his promising career and sullied the reputation of the great Wasll Street Journal- and all for just a few thousand dollars. This is the story of R. Foster Winans who was a rising star journalist in the heyday of the 1980’s, the era of “Greed is good.” This is not just a story of financ...
2025-05-28
25 min
Great Business Stories
R. Foster Winans and the WSJ Scandal.
What if I told you that one of the biggest insider trading scandals in Wall Street in the 1980s wasn’t orchestrated by a hedge fund titan or a corrupt CEO, but by a charming underpaid journalist for the Wall Street Journal who ruined his ruined his promising career and sullied the reputation of the great Wasll Street Journal- and all for just a few thousand dollars. This is the story of R. Foster Winans who was a rising star journalist in the heyday of the 1980’s, the era of “Greed is good.” This is not just a story of financ...
2025-05-28
23 min
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Jules Kroll and the Birth of Corporate Intelligence
it might not sound thrilling, but what if I told you the world’s most feared corporate investigator got his first big break from Spider-Man? And that this same man would go on to secretly chase billions in plundered wealth across five continents—uncovering Saddam Hussein’s Parisian investment, and billions in missing gold reserves of the fallen Soviet Union? From Wall Street dealmakers, to Pulitzer-winning journalists, to governments - they all came to Jules Kroll, the man who turned private investigation into a billion-dollar business empire—and became known as “the CIA of Wall Street.” In this episode, we dive into...
2025-05-21
27 min
Great Business Stories
Jules Kroll and the Birth of Corporate Intelligence
It might not sound thrilling, but what if I told you the world’s most feared corporate investigator got his first big break from Spider-Man? And that this same man would go on to secretly chase billions in plundered wealth across five continents—uncovering Saddam Hussein’s Parisian investment, and billions in missing gold reserves of the fallen Soviet Union? From Wall Street dealmakers, to Pulitzer-winning journalists, to governments - they all came to Jules Kroll, the man who turned private investigation into a billion-dollar business empire—and became known as “the CIA of Wall Street.” In this episode, we dive into...
2025-05-21
24 min
Great Business Stories
Fast Fashion, Faster Fall: The Forever 21 Flameout
I love this story because it’s the story of the American dream. It begins in a tiny Los Angeles storefront started up by a Korean immigrant couple and within a decade, they’ve created an empire. But there’s sweatshop scandals, religion, and a relentless refusal to slow down, leading to 2 bankruptcies, this is the story of how Forever 21 went from defining a generation… to becoming a case study in retail self-destruction.Subscribe now to access the the longer co-hosted episodes released on the 1st of every month as well as lots of bonus ep...
2025-05-14
27 min
Great Business Stories
Fast Fashion, Faster Fall: The Forever 21 Flameout
I love this story because it’s the story of the American dream. It begins in a tiny Los Angeles storefront started up by a Korean immigrant couple and within a decade, they’ve created an empire. But there’s sweatshop scandals, religion, and a relentless refusal to slow down, leading to 2 bankruptcies, this is the story of how Forever 21 went from defining a generation… to becoming a case study in retail self-destruction.
2025-05-14
26 min
Great Business Stories
The Winklevoss Twins: Assholes or Easy Targets
It’s a story that I’ve always wanted to dig into because if you were to tell me that 2 guys who came up with the idea for what became Facebook, had that idea very sneakily more or less stolen from them, would then go on to get involved in bitcoin at a time when it was only worth $13 dollars and predict that it would reach $40,000 and were laughed at by many for that prediction, become the first bitcoin billionaires and would found a company that has striven to ensure that bitcoin and digital currencies are regulated, attempt take that...
2025-05-07
28 min
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The Winklevoss Twins: Assholes or Easy Targets
It’s a story that I’ve always wanted to dig into because if you were to tell me that 2 guys who came up with the idea for what became Facebook, had that idea very sneakily more or less stolen from them, would then go on to get involved in bitcoin at a time when it was only worth $13 dollars and predict that it would reach $40,000 and were laughed at by many for that prediction, become the first bitcoin billionaires and would found a company that has striven to ensure that bitcoin and digital currencies are regulated, attempt take that...
2025-05-07
26 min
Great Business Stories
Dana White: King of the Cage, King of Controversy
In this episode I examine the remarkable rise of Dana White and the UFC- he is without doubt a master marketeer, but there are also some serious question marks over other aspects of his personality.Subscribe now to access the the longer co-hosted episodes released on the 1st of every month as well as lots of bonus episodes and ad free weekly episodes. Subscribe via Spotify Subscriptions, Apple Subscriptions or on Patreon by clicking on this link or going to patreon.com/greatbusinessstories
2025-04-30
26 min
Great Business Stories
Dana White: King of the Cage, King of Controversy
In this episode I examine the remarkable rise of Dana White and the UFC- he is without doubt a master marketeer, but there are also some serious question marks over other aspects of his personality.
2025-04-30
25 min
Great Business Stories
Trevor Milton & Nikola: Pardon Me Trevor, But You're Full Of Sh*t
In this episode we get into the Trevor Milton/Nikola scandal- it's a great story, although it would have been better if he got what he deservedSubscribe now to access the the longer co-hosted episodes released on the 1st of every month as well as lots of bonus episodes and ad free weekly episodes. Subscribe via Spotify Subscriptions, Apple Subscriptions or on Patreon by clicking on this link or going to patreon.com/greatbusinessstories
2025-04-23
29 min
Great Business Stories
Trevor Milton & Nikola: Pardon Me Trevor, But You're Full Of Sh*t
In this episode we get into the Trevor Milton/Nikola scandal- it's a great story, although it would have been better if he got what he deserved
2025-04-23
28 min
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A Short History of Short-Selling
In this episode I look at some of the best short-selling stories from the inception of short selling in 1609 and all the way up to 2025- we cover the legendary Jesse Livermore, the Piggly Wiggly short sale, the spectacular short pulled by Porsche- and more. It's a cracker of an episode Subscribe now to access the the longer co-hosted episodes released on the 1st of every month as well as lots of bonus episodes and ad free weekly episodes. Subscribe via Spotify Subscriptions, Apple Subscriptions or on Patreon by clicki...
2025-04-16
31 min
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A Short History of Short-Selling
In this episode I look at some of the best short-selling stories from the inception of short selling in 1609 and all the way up to 2025- we cover the legendary Jesse Livermore, the Piggly Wiggly short sale, the spectacular short pulled by Porsche- and more. It's a cracker of an episode
2025-04-16
30 min
Great Business Stories
Adam Osborne: Launched a Tech Revolution & Drove Steve Jobs Nuts
Adam Osborne was one of the most important figures in the early years of the personal computer and yet, I’d never heard of him- he’s an extraordinary figure and it’s a great story- enjoySubscribe now to access the the longer co-hosted episodes released on the 1st of every month as well as lots of bonus episodes and ad free weekly episodes. Subscribe via Spotify Subscriptions, Apple Subscriptions or on Patreon by clicking on this link or going to patreon.com/greatbusinessstories
2025-04-09
26 min
Great Business Stories
Adam Osborne: Launched a Tech Revolution & Drove Steve Jobs Nuts
Adam Osborne was one of the most important figures in the early years of the personal computer, and yet, I’d never heard of him- he’s an extraordinary figure and it’s a great story- enjoy
2025-04-09
25 min
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Bernie Ecclestone: The Man Who Built Formula 1
The title says it all- in this episode I do a deep dive on Bernie Ecclestone, the controversial F1 supremo for over 40 years.Subscribe now to access the the longer co-hosted episodes released on the 1st of every month as well as lots of bonus episodes and ad free weekly episodes. Subscribe via Spotify Subscriptions, Apple Subscriptions or on Patreon by clicking on this link or going to patreon.com/greatbusinessstories
2025-04-02
32 min
Great Business Stories
Bernie Ecclestone: The Man Who Built Formula 1
The title says it all- in this episode I do a deep dive on Bernie Ecclestone, the controversial F1 supremo for over 40 years.
2025-04-02
31 min
Great Business Stories
Barry Diller: From Hollywood to Tech – The Master of Reinvention
Subscribe now to access the the longer co-hosted episodes released on the 1st of every month as well as lots of bonus episodes and ad free weekly episodes. Subscribe via Spotify Subscriptions, Apple Subscriptions or on Patreon by clicking on this link or going to patreon.com/greatbusinessstoriesYou’ll find out pretty quickly that both myself and Keith are big fans of Diller- he’s the guy who brought us Roots, and in so doing he pioneered the introduction of the TV mini series- he green lighted some of the best TV comedies- from...
2025-04-01
1h 08
Great Business Stories
Disney Part 2: Michael Eisner
In the second part of our Disney 3-parter we look at the successes and drama that surrounded the Michael Eisner era
2025-04-01
1h 07
Great Business Stories
Disney Part 1: Walt Disney
In our first of a Disney 3-part series we look at the remarkable life and achievements of Walt Disney- it turned out to be a fascinating story- enjoy
2025-04-01
1h 04
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Tony O Reilly- Balls, Beans, Billions, Bankruptcy and Brilliance
this is the story of one of the most remarkable and probably overall talented people we’re ever likely to cover. A rugby superstar who would go on to lead Heinz for 20 years, become one of the highest paid and most successful CEO’s during that time while at the same time building a media and business empire on the other side of the ocean, who charmed and mixed with global elite, became Ireland’s first billionaire and then lost it all. It’s a remarkable story - enjoy
2025-03-01
1h 08
Great Business Stories
Range Rovers, Ruin & Redemption: Iceland’s 2008 Crash
2008 was a monumental year- financial markets collapsed and many countries, including Ireland, where both myself and Keith live, found out pretty quickly that we’d been living in a bubble. And while the impact of this crash affected so many people around the world, I don’t think any other country had such a huge proportion of its citizens affected as adversely as the 370,000 people in Iceland. So in this episode we examine why Iceland pivoted from its traditional industries into banking, how its economy grew at a breakneck speed and then how...
2025-02-01
52 min
Great Business Stories
Adam Neuman of WeWork- A Great Salesman Or A Great Bullshitter
The WeWork story is one that most of us are familiar with but as you’d expect we go deep into how Nueman was able to raise billions from some of the savviest investors, and from other investors like Softbank, who, as we find out, aren’t very savvy at all. What I love about this story is that as soon as I started digging, I kept coming across facts and figures and quotes from Neuman that just left me stunned- how did he get investors to fall for his schtick? We dig into Masayoshi Son...
2025-01-01
1h 11
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LIBOR Exposed: How the real scandal was buried
this is such a fascinating story for so many different reasons- we have traders who were found guilty and sent to jail in the UK for a crime that that apparently wasn’t a crime We have senior bankers caught on tape talking about collusion and openly manipulating the interest rates and yet they weren’t even charged and we have regulators who knew everything that was going on who had solid eveidence to go after senior bankers yet chose to stitch up those further down the line. This story goes to the heart of ever...
2024-12-01
59 min
Great Business Stories
The MySpace Meltdown: Murdoch, Missteps, and the Lost Battle for Social Media
In this episode we dig down into the very beginnings of social media, where MySpace was streets ahead of everyone else. And then Rupert Murdoch, the most famous, the most feared and perhaps one if not the most successful media tycoons of the 20th century enters the fray and I don’t know about you, but any business story that has Rupert Murdoch in it is going to be a cracker. Article: The Myspace Meltdown: Murdoch, Missteps, and the Lost Battle for Social Media
2024-11-01
1h 02
Great Business Stories
Ackman vs. Icahn: The Herbalife Battle That Shook Wall Street
Welcome to todays episode "Ackman vs. Icahn: The Herbalife Battle That Shook Wall Street"- now shook might be too strong a word- but it definitely gripped Wall Street and the business media as billionaire hedge funders Bill Ackman and Carl Icahn publicly feuded when Ackman took a short position on Herbalife and Icahn took the other side of the bet. https://gbspod.com/blog/ackman-vs-icahn-the-herbalife-battle-that-shook-wall-street
2024-10-01
1h 08
Great Business Stories
The BlackBerry Revolution: What Went Wrong?
In the episode we look at how 2 very different, diametrically opposed men came together and built a tiny Canadian wireless company into a huge success, and in doing so transformed the way people did business. And Blackberrys weren’t just transformative, they were loved. The company was just hitting its stride when the rug was pulled from underneath them by Steve Jobs with the launch of the iPhone in 2007. But as always, what’s really interesting here are the main characters involved, how they built up the compan...
2024-09-01
1h 07
Great Business Stories
Sumner Redstone’s Battles & Billion Dollar Deals
To subscribe on Patreon go to: https://www.patreon.com/greatbusinessstories Link to the story on our blog: https://app.podcastpage.io/settings/great-business-stories/blog/edit/sumner-redstones-battles-billion-dollar-deals Redstone, who died in 2020 is one of the most interesting and successful media moguls of the the 20th century - he bought MTV before it took off, he bought CBS and Paramount studio. We examine how he built his business from a handful of cinemas to a media empire We dig into the huge deals he got involved in ...
2024-08-01
1h 04
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PayPal: The Greatest Startup Story of All Time
PayPal: The Greatest Startup Story of All Time This has been one of my favourite stories to cover, because you have such big characters who are now very much sitting at the top of the table business wise - we’re talking Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, David Sacks and many more. And it’s fascinating to recall how these guys started out and nearly didn’t make it There is so much drama in the story with boardroom coups, Russian fraudsters, Musk being f...
2024-07-01
1h 02
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Dennis Kozlowski & Tyco: Villain or Victim of Post-Enron Climate
In today's episode, we're digging into the Tyco scandal of the early 2000s, specifically focusing on Tyco's CEO Dennis Kozlowski, who was charged and convicted of stealing $132 million from Tyco to fund a lavish lifestyle. While other Tyco executives were also charged, and there were additional charges that we don't delve into, we do mention them briefly. However, our main focus is on the primary charges against Kozlowski. What's really unusual about this story is that both Keith and I started our research believing we knew the story - a tale of corporate greed. We...
2024-06-01
55 min
Great Business Stories
The 1MDB Heist: How Jho Low & the Prime Minister stole $4.5 billion
This is the fascinating story of how Jho Low, young Malaysian businessman educated in Harrow formed one of the most notorious and lucrative business partnerships with the Malaysian Prime minister and they syphoned off a jaw dropping $4.5 billion It’s the story of how Jho Low and his friends spent their ill gotten gains by splashing out on parties, multi-million dollar properties, jewellery, art as well as financing Hollywood movies- 1 movie in particular that you’ll definitely know. And it’s a story of Malaysia and the endemic corruption that em...
2024-05-01
1h 00
Great Business Stories
Ray Kroc: Hero or Villain? Uncovering the Truth Behind McDonald's
We dig deep into Ray Kroc and how he and the Mcdonald brothers created the fast food revolution What was Ray Kroc really like? Was he a shyster, a lucky salesman or true visionary? Is he really a villain as the movie made him out to be-And crucially, did Ray Kroc renege on an agreement to pay the McdOnalds brothers commission on all sales going forward? I hope you enjoy this one and remember, a new episode is released on the first of every month
2024-04-01
1h 05
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The $4.5 billion 1MDB Heist How Jo Low & the Prime Minister stole a fortune
The fascinating story of how Jo Lo, a young Malaysian man with an knack for networking with the right people, got together with the Malaysian Prime minister and syphoned off a jaw dropping $4.5 billion It’s a story of how Jo Lo and his friends spent their ill gotten gains by splashing out on parties, multi-million dollar properties, jewellery, art as well as financing Hollywood movies.And it’s a story of Malaysia and the endemic corruption that emanates from the very top- as it would when you have a pri...
2024-03-01
59 min
Great Business Stories
Playing with Fire: Ivar Kreuger - Business Genius or Master Fraudster?
This is the fascinating story of Ivar Kreuger, the most famous Swedish person and probably the most successful business person you’ve never heard of. In his prime during the roaring twenties Ivar built up a fortune worth $100 billion in today’s money He invented many of the financial instruments that are still being used to this day- the stocks and bonds of his companies were the most widely held securities in the world He lent billions to cash strapped governments and became a personal advisor to the US president. And yet, if you...
2024-03-01
1h 00
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Barbarians at the Gate: Is This The Best Business Story Ever Told?
The book "Barbarians at the Gate" is probably the best business story ever told. It’s a riveting account of the leveraged buyout of the tobacco and food giant RJR Nabisco in the late 1980s, The story gives a great insight into what exactly leveraged buyouts are. We learn how Henry Kravis and his cousin George Roberts formed the legendary LBO firm KKR. We see how banks and LBO firms manage to profit handsomely even when deals go bad. And we see how industry titans end up playing second fiddle when they...
2024-02-01
56 min
Great Business Stories
Branson's Triumph: The Inside Story of British Airways Dirty Tricks Campaign
This was one of the biggest business scandals of the 1980’s when British Airways financed a dirty tricks campaign in an attempt to publicly blacken Richard Bransons name and put his fledgling airline out of business We find out why Richard Branson got into the airline business? How he managed to get under the skin of British Airways We discuss why British Airways, one of the biggest and most respected companies at the time, decided to wage a dirty tricks campaign against Branson’s tiny new airline.And who were the peop...
2024-02-01
53 min
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Sip or Sink: The Story Behind New Coke's Epic Fail
New Coke- probably the worst product launch in the history of business. This is the story of how, in 1985, Coke’s superstar CEO, the man who could do no wrong, decided to replace the 100 year old coke formula with a new sweeter tasting coke. Who was this CEO and what were the reasons that led to this decision? Why was there such an intense backlash? And how did Coke not anticipate the backlash? Was it all just a conspiracy? It was definitely one of the worst product lau...
2024-02-01
54 min
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Reprogramming Your Mind For Happiness With Caemin O Connor
Caemin O Connor is the creator of Lite Mind, a breakthrough technique that helps busy people have a happier and more fulfilled life.He has spent years studying happiness with a particular focus on neuroscience and positive psychology.The end result is Lite Mind.Today, he is here to talk to us about how to naturally appreciate the good in your everyday life and as a result become happier.Connect with Caemin:Website: https://lite-mind.com/Free Exercise: https://lite-mind.com/pages/free-lite-mind-exerciseFacebook: https...
2022-02-02
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