Sneakerheads: How Basketball Shoes Became a $10 Billion Asset Class
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On Bronx basketball courts in the 1960s and 70s, a new pair of sneakers invited a ritual called ...
7 Okt 21min
Slot Machines: From Chewing Gum Loopholes to Engineered Addiction
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The cherries, lemons, and plums on a slot machine were originally flavors of chewing gum, put on...
7 Okt 26min
Sears Modern Homes: The 30,000 Piece Houses Sold by Mail Order
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Between 1908 and 1942, Sears sold more than 70,000 houses through its catalog, each one arriving...
7 Okt 24min
Tino De Angelis: The Salad Oil Swindle That Fooled Wall Street
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1963, 51 financial institutions discovered that $180 million in loans, nearly $2 billion in m...
7 Okt 23min
S&H Green Stamps: The Sticky Paper Empire That Invented Loyalty
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Founded in 1896 by Thomas Sperry and Shelley Byron Hutchinson, S&H Green Stamps turned the check...
7 Okt 22min
Ruja Ignatova: The OneCoin Cryptoqueen Who Took $4 Billion and Vanished
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In late 2014, as Bitcoin stories fed a global fear of missing out, Ruja Ignatova and her lead di...
7 Okt 21min
Rudy Kurniawan: The Kitchen Sink Forger Who Fooled Fine Wine's Elite
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Rudy Kurniawan was born in Jakarta in 1976, came to the United States as a student, and ignored ...
7 Okt 19min
Ron Popeil: The Chop-O-Matic Pitchman Who Invented the Infomercial
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Ron Popeil began his career shouting over department store noise, slicing mountains of cabbage t...
7 Okt 18min
