MySpace: How a $12 Billion Social Network Destroyed Itself
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!MySpace began in August 2003 as a pragmatic copy of Friendster, built in just 10 days by employe...
7 Okt 22min
Muriel Siebert: The First Woman to Own a Seat on the NYSE
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In late 1967 the New York Stock Exchange had 1,365 members, and exactly one of them was a woman....
7 Okt 22min
Moral Hazard: From Insurance Fraud to the 2008 Financial Meltdown
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A drop-proof phone case can make you more careless with your phone, and that small shift in beha...
7 Okt 20min
Michael Larson: The Ice Cream Man Who Broke Press Your Luck in 1984
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In May 1984 a CBS control room descended into panic as a man in a thrift store shirt drained Pre...
7 Okt 23min
The McDonald's Happy Meal: How a Cardboard Box Outsold the Food Inside
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1987 an advertising executive named Bob Bernstein was handed a solid gold replica of a cardbo...
7 Okt 23min
Edward Thorp: The Math Professor Who Beat Blackjack and Wall Street
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the early 1960s a mathematician sat at Nevada blackjack tables in wraparound sunglasses and a...
7 Okt 21min
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Rome's Richest Man and His Fatal Envy
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 53 BC, at a royal wedding feast in Armenia, an actor performing the Bacchae carried onto the ...
7 Okt 25min
The Credit Card: From the 1958 Fresno Drop to a Hidden Tax on Cash
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1958 Bank of America mailed 60,000 active, unrequested credit cards to residents of Fresno, C...
7 Okt 20min
