C&S Rewind: The Full Story of MrBeast

Instagram is coming to your TV. YouTube creators are showing up on Netflix and Hulu. And Disney just invested $1 billion into OpenAI. In this episode, we break down three headlines that point to the same shift: the living room is becoming the most important screen in the creator ...  Show more

Something strange is happening in media: you can now bet on everything. News events. Celebrity relationships. Short-form views. Even what MrBeast might say in his next video. In this episode, we unpack the rise of prediction markets like Kalshi and why they’re suddenly being plug ...  Show more

In this episode, we hear about Pierre's improbable story. From growing up with almost nothing to being a first-generation high school and college graduate and earning $30,000 in his first job out of school, to pursuing a master's in organizational psychology and eventually landin ...  Show more

Odd Lots is seven years old now, having started in late 2015. When it began, we really didn't know what the show was going to be or be about. To end 2022, we decided to revisit our very first episode, when we interviewed our legendary Bloomberg colleague Tom Keene. We talked abou ...  Show more

Imagine being worth $150 million. Liquid. 

Now imagine being worth that much, and only spending $5,000 a month.

That’s the reality for this episode’s guest.

“Cam” is going to share a lot of financial details with us, so he’s asked to remain anonymous. What we ...

Five years before he became a massively successful content creator, Dhar Mann was nearly broke and living in a studio apartment. It’s the kind of story he might tell in one of his videos: bite-sized, live-action morality tales that have earned 60 billion views across YouTube, ...