Dish Network: AutoHop, a Space Debris Fine and the $1 DirecTV Offer
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Charlie Ergen, Candy Ergen and Jim DeFranco founded EchoStar Communications in 1980 to sell 10-f...
21 Loka 24min
DirecTV: The Black Sunday Smart Card Kill and AT&T's $67 Billion Gamble
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!DirecTV traces back to 1985, when the Howard Hughes Medical Institute sold Hughes Aircraft to Ge...
21 Loka 25min
Bethlehem Steel: The Ferris Wheel Axle, Gray Beams and a Pension Collapse
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Augustus Wolle founded the Saucona Iron Company in Pennsylvania in 1857; it became the Bethlehem...
21 Loka 25min
E-3 Sentry AWACS: A Tilted Rotodome and the 2026 Prince Sultan Strike
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The E-3 Sentry, the Airborne Warning and Control System, grew out of the look-down problem: the ...
21 Loka 24min
Monsanto: From Saccharin and the Dayton Project to Roundup Ready Seeds
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John Francis Queeny founded Monsanto in St. Louis in 1901 and named it after his wife, Olga Mend...
21 Loka 21min
Comcast: Tupelo Muzak, a Failed Disney Bid and the 2026 NBCUniversal Split
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1963 Ralph Roberts, Daniel Aaron and Julian Brodsky paid $500,000 for American Cable Systems ...
21 Loka 22min
Troy Smith and Sonic: A Root Beer Stand, Borrowed Cars and a Penny a Bag
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After World War II, veteran Troy Smith went home to Seminole, Oklahoma and worked as a milkman, ...
21 Loka 21min
Heartland Payment Systems: 100 Million Cards Stolen and the E3 Fix
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Bob Carr co-founded Heartland Payment Systems in Princeton, New Jersey in 1997 to bring enterpri...
21 Loka 21min
