Business History

Documentary series on surprising stories from business history KI-Zusammenfassung

Pushkin Industries Zur Website › Business · EN · 53 Folgen · zuletzt 11.11.2026

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It’s the history of business. How did Hitler’s favorite car become synonymous with hippies? What got Thomas Edison tangled up with the electric chair? Did someone murder the guy who invented the movies? Former Planet Money hosts Jacob Goldstein and Robert Smith examine the surprising stories of businesses big and small and find out what you can learn from those who founded them.

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  1. 11.11.2026 · 49 Min. · Staffel 1, Folge 48

    Decades ago, if you wanted to watch Columbo, you watched it when it aired. Then Sony invented the Betamax, a machine that let you record TV and watch it whenever you wanted. Sony’s chief called it “time shifting.”…

  2. 04.11.2026 · 54 Min. · Staffel 1, Folge 47

    Before there was Canada, there was the Hudson’s Bay Company. HBC had its own laws and its own currency, and at one point controlled trade routes from the Arctic to Hawaii. It started cities like Winnipeg, Edmonton, and…

  3. 28.10.2026 · 42 Min. · Staffel 1, Folge 46

    Before Reuters was a global news giant, it was a man and 45 homing pigeons. Julius Reuter saw that the telegraph would change how information moved, and he used that to his advantage. He didn’t have to get news out…

  4. 21.10.2026 · 48 Min. · Staffel 1, Folge 45

    Jacob Goldstein and Robert Smith talk with Adrian Wooldridge, co-author of The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea. Companies are some of the most powerful institutions in the modern world – right up there…

  5. 14.10.2026 · 56 Min. · Staffel 1, Folge 44

    In the late 1800s, a Russian immigrant named Samuel Zemurray spent nearly everything he had on a load of bananas, and turned it into a fortune. But Sam the Banana Man wasn’t just a business titan. He was a puppeteer on…

  6. 07.10.2026 · 50 Min.

    We're here with a preview of Blockers, a new audiobook from Michael Lewis, the author of Liars Poker, Moneyball, The Big Short and more. In Blockers, Lewis tells the story of a handful of people who dedicated their…

  7. 30.09.2026 · 35 Min.

    Business History is off this week, so we wanted to keep you entertained with a rerun, in case you missed our Beetle episode the first time around. (You can help us win a Signal Award for this episode by voting here.)…

  8. 23.09.2026 · 38 Min. · Staffel 1, Folge 43

    Wayne Huizenga came from a long line of trash collectors. It was a rough, fragmented, mom-and-pops business which notoriously attracted mobsters. But Huizenga set out to buy his small competitors - to roll them up - to…

  9. 18.09.2026 · 44 Min.

    With the news of Warren Buffett stepping down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, we are revisiting an episode from our two-part series on Buffet. Warren Buffett rose from obscurity to become the richest person in the…

  10. 16.09.2026 · 45 Min. · Staffel 1, Folge 42

    Herman Petty was a Chicago barber and bus driver who dreamed of running his own business. When his local McDonald's restaurant was abandoned in 1968, Herman approached the company and said he should be the first black…

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