Listen Now: My Mom’s Murder
Lauren Malloy was a baby when her mother, Lori, was murdered in East Providence, Rhode Island. For thirty years, no one told her. Everyone said Lori died of natural causes. Then a stranger sent Lauren...
28 Sep 5min
FanDuel vs DraftKings | The Enemy of My Enemy | 1
It’s 2009, and most online betting is illegal in the U.S. Then tech founder Nigel Eccles finds a nifty loophole around fantasy sports, and FanDuel is born. The new ‘daily fantasy sports’ app allows us...
23 Sep 46min
Roomba: Hitting the Wall | The New Space Race | 3
Recent visitors to China’s tech zone in Shenzhen have come away in awe of the country’s manufacturing capabilities, including its increasingly advanced humanoid robots. And when iRobot’s Chinese suppl...
17 Sep 36min
Roomba: Hitting the Wall | The Moat | 2
It’s 2017 and the Roomba rules the robotic vacuum market. But cheaper competitors from China, some of whom offer more features for less money, start eating away at its lead. iRobot’s CEO Colin Angle f...
16 Sep 47min
Roomba: Hitting the Wall | Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control | 1
It’s 1984 and MIT professor Rodney Brooks has a radical idea: robots don't need complicated brains to navigate the world — they just need simple rules. Brooks and two of his students, Colin Angle and ...
9 Sep 47min
The Sweetener Wars | Sweet Goes Sour | 2
After years on top, Sweet’N Low is sinking fast. Newer artificial sweeteners aspartame and sucralose are spawning fresh competition. But the problems go even deeper – because within its own ranks, fra...
2 Sep 43min
The Sweetener Wars | Attack of the Cancer Rats | 1
The promise seemed miraculous. Sweetness minus the calories. But when studies begin to link artificial sweeteners with cancer, the entire industry faces oblivion. And it'll take some lightning-fast pi...
26 Aug 46min
Warby Parker vs Luxottica | A Modern Lens | 3
When Warby Parker debuted in 2010, the brand disrupted not just how much eyeglasses cost, but also how customers purchased them. Its direct-to-consumer e-commerce business model left many wondering wh...
20 Aug 39min
