Episodes

Range Rovers, Ruin & Redemption: Iceland’s 2008 Crash
February 01, 202500:52:5758.96 MB

Range Rovers, Ruin & Redemption: Iceland’s 2008 Crash

2008 was a monumental year- financial markets collapsed and many countries, including Ireland, where both myself and Keith live, found out pretty quickly that we’d been living in a bubble. And while the impact of this crash affected so many people around the world, I don’t think any other country...

Adam Neuman of WeWork- A Great Salesman Or A Great Bullshitter
January 01, 202501:11:5966.63 MB

Adam Neuman of WeWork- A Great Salesman Or A Great Bullshitter

The WeWork story is one that most of us are familiar with but as you’d expect we go deep into how Nueman was able to raise billions from some of the savviest investors, and from other investors like Softbank, who, as we find out, aren’t very savvy at all. What I love about this story is that as s...

LIBOR Exposed: How the real scandal was buried
December 01, 202400:59:0554.69 MB

LIBOR Exposed: How the real scandal was buried

this is such a fascinating story for so many different reasons- we have traders who were found guilty and sent to jail in the UK for a crime that that apparently wasn’t a crime We have senior bankers caught on tape talking about collusion and openly manipulating the interest rates and yet they we...

The MySpace Meltdown: Murdoch, Missteps, and the Lost Battle for Social Media
November 01, 202401:02:4958.15 MB

The MySpace Meltdown: Murdoch, Missteps, and the Lost Battle for Social Media

In this episode we dig down into the very beginnings of social media, where MySpace was streets ahead of everyone else. And then Rupert Murdoch, the most famous, the most feared and perhaps one if not the most successful media tycoons of the 20th century enters the fray and I don’t know about you...

Ackman vs. Icahn: The Herbalife Battle That Shook Wall Street
September 30, 202401:08:0262.3 MB

Ackman vs. Icahn: The Herbalife Battle That Shook Wall Street

Welcome to todays episode "Ackman vs. Icahn: The Herbalife Battle That Shook Wall Street"- now shook might be too strong a word- but it definitely gripped Wall Street and the business media as billionaire hedge funders Bill Ackman and Carl Icahn publicly feuded when Ackman took a short po...

The BlackBerry Revolution: What Went Wrong?
September 01, 202401:07:2461.72 MB

The BlackBerry Revolution: What Went Wrong?

In the episode we look at how 2 very different, diametrically opposed men came together and built a tiny Canadian wireless company into a huge success, and in doing so transformed the way people did business. And Blackberrys weren’t just transformative, they were loved.  The company was jus...

Sumner Redstone’s Battles & Billion Dollar Deals
August 01, 202401:04:3272.38 MB

Sumner Redstone’s Battles & Billion Dollar Deals

To subscribe on Patreon go to: https://www.patreon.com/greatbusinessstories Link to the story on our blog: https://app.podcastpage.io/settings/great-business-stories/blog/edit/sumner-redstones-battles-billion-dollar-deals Redstone, who died in 2020 is one of the most interesting and successfu...

PayPal: The Greatest Startup Story of All Time
July 01, 202401:02:0372.05 MB

PayPal: The Greatest Startup Story of All Time

PayPal: The Greatest Startup Story of All Time This has been one of my favourite stories to cover, because you have such big characters who are now very much sitting at the top of the table business wise - we’re talking Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, David Sacks and many more. And it...

Dennis Kozlowski & Tyco: Villain or Victim of Post-Enron Climate
June 01, 202400:55:4551.05 MB

Dennis Kozlowski & Tyco: Villain or Victim of Post-Enron Climate

In today's episode, we're digging into the Tyco scandal of the early 2000s, specifically focusing on Tyco's CEO Dennis Kozlowski, who was charged and convicted of stealing $132 million from Tyco to fund a lavish lifestyle. While other Tyco executives were also charged, and there were ...

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