Reader's Digest: A Speakeasy Basement, Sweepstakes Probes and a £1 Sale
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Reader's Digest began with DeWitt and Lila Bell Wallace, who married in 1920 in Pleasantville, N...
19 Okt 20min
Paytm: Uber Wallets, a Talking Soundbox and a Canceled Banking License
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Paytm was founded by Vijay Shekhar Sharma in August 2010 with an initial investment of $2 millio...
19 Okt 15min
Motorola: Battery Eliminators, a Moon Transceiver and the StarMax Feud
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Motorola began in 1928 in Chicago as the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation, founded by brothers P...
19 Okt 21min
Michael Milken at Drexel: A $550 Million Paycheck, RICO and Bankruptcy
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Michael Milken's rise ran through Drexel Burnham Lambert, a firm that began in 1935 when I.W. "T...
19 Okt 24min
Merrill Lynch: Safeway, the Thundering Herd and the First Franklin Bet
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Merrill Lynch began on January 6, 1914, when Charles E. Merrill opened his firm on Wall Street; ...
19 Okt 24min
Morgan Stanley: Glass-Steagall Roots, Rick Rescorla and a $9 Billion Check
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Morgan Stanley exists because of the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act, which forced banks to choose betwe...
19 Okt 23min
Littoral Combat Ship: From the $90M Street Fighter to Early Retirements
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Littoral Combat Ship began with the Street Fighter, a concept from Navy strategists Wayne Hu...
19 Okt 23min
RJR Nabisco: Ross Johnson's $112 Bid, a Missing Reset and KKR's $109 Win
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!RJR Nabisco was formed when R.J. Reynolds, a tobacco company rooted in Winston-Salem, North Caro...
19 Okt 20min
