Razor and Blades: The Business Model Behind the $39 Printer Trap
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A printer that costs 39 dollars is not a bargain. It is the first payment on years of ink. This ...
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Calouste Gulbenkian: How Mr. Five Percent Brokered the Oil Age
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Asked by the Ottoman finance minister to survey the oil of Mesopotamia, a young engineer never l...
7 Okt 21min
Bugsy Siegel: The Mob Hitman Who Built the Flamingo and Las Vegas
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On the night of June 20, 1947, a gunman rested an M1 carbine on a trellis outside a Beverly Hill...
7 Okt 23min
William Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold: The Speech That Won 1896
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On July 9, 1896, inside a sweltering Chicago Coliseum, a 36-year-old former congressman from Neb...
7 Okt 25min
Bretton Woods 1944: How 44 Nations Made the Dollar King
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In July 1944, a month after Normandy, delegates from 44 Allied nations gathered at the Mount Was...
7 Okt 25min
Card Counting in Blackjack: The Simple Math Casinos Fear Most
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Rain Man made card counting look like a feat of photographic memory. The truth is plainer and ha...
7 Okt 24min
BlackBerry's Rise and Fall: From 85 Million Users to 0.0 Percent
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 2008 an incoming president fought his own security agencies to keep his phone. That phone was...
7 Okt 21min
Black Wednesday 1992: How George Soros Broke the British Pound
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On September 16, 1992, the British government spent billions defending the pound, raised interes...
7 Okt 23min
