Marriott: From a 1927 Root Beer Stand to the World's Largest Hotel Company
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!J. Willard Marriott first felt Washington, D.C.'s summer heat while serving a mission for the LD...
19 Loka 21min
Port of Los Angeles: From the Bay of Smokes Mudflat to America's Megaport
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1542 Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo sailed into a shallow inlet in Southern California and named it ...
19 Loka 23min
Grumman Ironworks: Hellcats, the Lunar Module and the Postal LLV Truck
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1929, when Keystone Aircraft bought Loening Aircraft and moved operations to Bristol, Pennsyl...
19 Loka 18min
Carlyle Group: Defense Deals, a 9/11 Crisis and the Seattle Seahawks
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Carlyle Group was founded in 1987 by five partners including David Rubenstein, William E. Co...
19 Loka 16min
Raytheon to RTX: A Distant Star, a Melted Candy Bar and Patriot Missiles
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!RTX began in 1922 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when Vannevar Bush, Laurence K. Marshall and Char...
19 Loka 22min
Jensen Huang and Nvidia: From a Denny's Booth to a $5 Trillion AI Giant
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Nvidia was sketched out in late 1992 in a Denny's on Berryessa Road in East San Jose by Jensen H...
19 Loka 26min
Northrop Grumman: Flying Wings, the B-21 Raider and Bethpage Pollution
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Northrop Grumman is the fifth largest contractor to the U.S. federal government, which supplied ...
19 Loka 23min
Liaoning: Feathered Dinosaurs Beneath China's Rust Belt Province
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Liaoning, China's southernmost northeastern province, wraps around the Yellow and Bohai Seas and...
19 Loka 20min
