How We Got Here

A cheap flight… that ends up feeling expensive. This episode: how Ryanair and Michael O'Leary perfected drip pricing and made billions doing it. Removing olives, lukewarm off-brand soft drinks, expensive wheelchair hire… and the hardest two truths and a lie segment yet.0:00 Intro5:05 Two Truths & A Lie7:10 The Industry That Counts Olives11:00 Enter The Accountant16:10 The Southwest Effect21:55 O'Leary Takes The Controls28:02 Since When Is A Wheelchair A Frill?35:52 The Charge Sheet - And Why It Works41:05 The Point Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kodak didn’t make a mistake. The digital camera was invented in their own building but it was missing more than film. It was missing a business model.0:00 Intro3:15 Two Truths & A Lie4:15 The Man Who Gave Everyone A Camera15:40 Advertising Done To Perfection23:06 Welcome Steve35:25 The Point39:15 The Ending44:10 Two Truths & A lieMadmen Scene - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq3n2sJ43Hg&t=4sA Long Time In Finance w/ Steve Sasson - https://open.spotify.com/episode/407q6PT4umq9BVECyJsLhy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode contains adult topics and themesEver wondered how the world's most popular cereal ended up in your breakfast bowl? The story behind Cornflakes is stranger than you'd think, meet John Harvey Kellogg, the man whose obsession with gut health and moral purity accidentally changed the way the world eats breakfast.0:00 Intro5:40 Two truths and a lie7:30 The religious pipeline10:40 Picking the doctor13:35 The San17:45 Gut Health24:34 The anti masturbation crusade29:41 The accidental invention35:11 The rival next door37:26 The brothers split43:52 A note on more dark stuff46:06 The end50:42 Two truths and a lie Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A complete corporate disaster.Blockbuster stuffed up so badly that the world started walking down a path away from one-off payments and towards subscriptions. And the best part is, Blockbuster's demise was baked in from the start. It just grew so fast the problems were hard to see... for a few years.0:00 Intro9:10 The VCR19:09 The War24:42 Hello Rental Industry28:15 Welcome To BlockBuster36:00 Huizenga40:27 Viacom Era44:51 Injured By DVD48:59 Enter The Wolf50:43 The Collapse Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Adidas vs. Puma. Two brothers. One town. A feud that changed sport forever. Adolf and Rudolf began as partners, cobbling shoes together in central Germany before a family fallout split them into bitter rivals. What followed was decades of corporate warfare, played out on the world's biggest stages, that transformed sports marketing into one of the most powerful industries of the 20th century.Howe We Got Here  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Business history is wilder than you think. Join finance journalist and digital storyteller, Chris Kohler, as he delves into the corporate moments that were too ridiculous to make up, but too important to ignore. The deals that collapsed empires. The decisions that accidentally built them. The scandals that still echo through every boardroom today. Tested and refined through millions of social media views, these are the stories that explain why modern business looks the way it does. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.