William Zeckendorf: The UN Land Deal, Freedomland and a Fake Groundbreaking
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!William Zeckendorf was born in 1905 in Paris, Illinois, the son of a hardware store manager, and...
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Warner Bros: Jack Warner's Secret Buyback to the $110 Billion Skydance Deal
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack Warner started the Warner Features Company in 1910 and incorporated ...
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Boeing After McDonnell Douglas: $60B Buybacks, the 737 MAX and a Door Plug
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!William E. Boeing, a lumber industrialist, founded his company in Seattle in 1916, and by 1934 a...
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Venmo: A Forgotten Wallet, a Public Money Feed and $7 Debt Collectors
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Venmo began with two University of Pennsylvania freshman roommates, Andrew Kortina and Iqram Mag...
19 Okt 25min
Universal Pictures: Defying Edison, Losing Oswald and the 17-Day Window
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the early 1900s Thomas Edison's Motion Picture Patents Company controlled key film patents, i...
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USS New Jersey: Typhoon Cobra, Beirut Shelling and an Azur Lane Fan Event
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Iowa-class battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62) was ordered in 1939 and launched on December 7,...
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UPS: A $100 Seattle Loan, Crushed Brown Trucks and the Louisville Worldport
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On August 28, 1907, teenagers James E. Casey and Claude Ryan founded the American Messenger Comp...
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TurboTax: Hidden Free File Pages, $11M Lobbying and a $141M Settlement
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!TurboTax began in 1984 as a product of Michael A. Chipman's ChipSoft and was sold to Intuit in 1...
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