Rai Stones of Yap: Giant Stone Money and the Meaning of Value
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On the Yap Islands of Micronesia, wealth once took the form of limestone disks with a hole in th...
7 Okt 22min
George Eastman and Kodak: You Press the Button, We Do the Rest
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the 1870s, taking a photograph meant hauling glass plates, toxic chemicals, and a dark tent i...
7 Okt 20min
The GameStop Short Squeeze: How Reddit Traders Broke Wall Street's Plumbing
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!By January 2021, hedge funds had sold short roughly 140 percent of GameStop's public float, a nu...
7 Okt 21min
Frank McNamara and Diners Club: The Forgotten Wallet That Built Credit
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The legend says that in 1949 Frank X. McNamara finished a meal at Major's Cabin Grill in New Yor...
7 Okt 20min
The Fidget Spinner: A Fake Inventor Story and a Debunked Focus Cure
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 2017 the fidget spinner was sold to millions of parents as a tool that could ease anxiety, he...
7 Okt 20min
Arthur Andersen: From Uncompromising Honesty to the Enron Collapse
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Arthur E. Andersen was orphaned at 16, worked as a mail boy in Chicago, studied at night, and in...
7 Okt 24min
Edwin Land and Polaroid: The Instant Photo Genius Ousted by His Board
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Edwin H. Land left Harvard after his freshman year to chase one problem: how to control the dire...
7 Okt 21min
Dogecoin: How a Joke Cryptocurrency Reached an $85 Billion Valuation
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In December 2013, IBM software engineer Billy Markus and Adobe marketer Jackson Palmer built a c...
7 Okt 23min
