DARPA: Sputnik Panic, ARPANET, Total Information Awareness and AI Dogfights
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Soviet launch of Sputnik 1 in October 1957 led President Eisenhower to authorize the Advance...
19 Okt 20min
Cyrix: Math Coprocessors, a $12 Million Intel Settlement and Quake's Toll
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Cyrix was founded in Richardson, Texas, in 1988 by Jerry Rogers and Tom Brightman. It started wi...
19 Okt 23min
Curtiss-Wright: From 29,000 Warplanes to Actuators, Valves and Black Boxes
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Curtiss-Wright formed on July 5, 1929, when the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company of Buffalo a...
19 Okt 21min
Credit Default Swaps: Exxon Valdez, Naked Bets and a $62 Trillion Market
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A credit default swap is a contract in which a buyer pays regular premiums, called the spread, t...
19 Okt 22min
Countrywide Financial: Angelo Mozilo, Friends of Angelo and the 2007 Run
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Countrywide Financial was founded in 1969 by David S. Loeb and Angelo Mozilo and listed on the N...
19 Okt 21min
Convair: B-24 Liberators, the 10-Engine B-36 and the Atlas-Centaur Rocket
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Convair, formally Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, was formed in 1943 when Consolidated...
19 Okt 20min
Conrail: Penn Central's Collapse, the Staggers Act and a $1.65 Billion IPO
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Conrail was the federal answer to the collapse of Northeastern railroading. The 1968 merger of t...
19 Okt 19min
Coinbase: Brian Armstrong's Custody Bet, an Insider Trade and the SEC Fight
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Coinbase began in 2012 when Brian Armstrong, a software engineer at Airbnb, received $150,000 fr...
19 Okt 22min
