Gerald Ratner: The Prawn Sandwich Joke That Wiped Out £500 Million
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Gerald Ratner built one of the largest jewelry empires in the world and destroyed it with a joke...
7 Okt 19min
Ross Ulbricht and Silk Road: The Dark Web Empire Run From a Library
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In October 2013, a man in his late twenties sat in the science fiction section of San Francisco'...
7 Okt 21min
The Nixon Shock: The 1971 Weekend That Cut the Dollar From Gold
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In August 1971 the British government quietly asked the United States to move $3 billion in gold...
7 Okt 23min
The Knights Templar: Warrior Monks Who Invented Medieval Banking
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The original emblem of the Knights Templar shows two knights sharing one horse, because they wer...
7 Okt 25min
New Coke: The 79-Day Blunder That Accidentally Saved Coca-Cola
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After World War II, Coca-Cola held 60 percent of the cola market. By the early 1980s that share ...
7 Okt 20min
Netscape: The Browser That Built the Web and Lost to Microsoft
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Before they wrote a line of commercial browser code, Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen drafted a 20-...
7 Okt 22min
Napster: The App That Broke the Music Industry and Refused to Die
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!At its peak, one piece of software consumed 61 percent of external internet traffic on universit...
7 Okt 22min
NFTs: From a $4 Video Clip to a $17 Billion Bubble and Back to Zero
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The first known NFT sold for $4. In May 2014, artist Kevin McCoy and technologist Anil Dash regi...
7 Okt 22min
