HMS Dreadnought: Jackie Fisher's 125-Day Hull and the Rammed U-29
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!HMS Dreadnought, launched in 1906, made every other battleship obsolete. Pre-dreadnoughts carrie...
19 Okt 21min
HBO: Charles Dolan's Green Channel, 365 Subscribers and Satellite TV
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the summer of 1971, cable executive Charles Dolan was aboard the Queen Elizabeth II on a fami...
19 Okt 21min
George Lucas and Lucasfilm: Merchandising Rights, THX and the $4.05B Sale
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!George Lucas founded Lucasfilm in December 1971 in Marin County, Northern California, deliberate...
19 Okt 19min
WarnerMedia: Kinney Funeral Homes, the $183B AOL Deal and AT&T's Exit
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The company most recently known as WarnerMedia began far from Hollywood. In the 1960s Kinney Nat...
19 Okt 26min
Freddie Mac: The 1970 Fannie Rival, 2008 Conservatorship and $10.7B Profit
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, Freddie Mac, was created by the Emergency Home Finan...
19 Okt 23min
John Bogle and Vanguard: Fired at Wellington, an $11 Million Index Flop
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John C. Bogle's 1951 Princeton thesis found that mutual fund managers rarely beat market indexes...
19 Okt 21min
Fidelity: Abigail Johnson, Zero-Fee Index Funds and the Jefferies Gifts
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Fidelity Investments is privately owned: parent FMR LLC is about 40 percent held by CEO Abigail ...
19 Okt 21min
Fairchild Semiconductor: The Traitorous Eight, Planar Chips and Shiprock
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1955 physicist William Shockley founded Shockley Semiconductor in Mountain View, California, ...
19 Okt 21min
