Seinfeld, which ended three decades ago, has been watched by 72 million Americans so far THIS YEAR. Behind that incredible stat is an equally incredible business story: obsessive creators, perfect market timing, an ownership structure that aligned incentives for the long term…all ...Show more
Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire
In 1984, the Walt Disney Company was worth more dead than alive. Disney Animation — the heart of Walt's famous flywheel — had stagnated for years, bleeding away talent while corporate raiders circled, salivating over offers to sell off the film library to MGM and offload the park ...Show more
What started as a design project for Stanford student Evan Spiegel quickly flourished into one of the most-used social media platforms in the world: Snapchat. It only took two years for Mark Zuckerberg to make a multi-billion offer for the company. But Evan turned it down — convi ...Show more
It’s November 2013, and Mark Zuckerberg is about to make Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy an offer he thinks they can't refuse. But when Spiegel and Murphy do the unimaginable, it prompts Facebook to compete — by copying.Snapchat is gathering steam, but data leaks are hurting the co ...Show more
What does Snapchat think we want from them?!! This week Ben breaks down the rise and fall of Snapchat and theorizes why it's in its flop era by looking at the business decisions that led it's content down a dark and mind-numbing path. From handing buckets of cash to creators to p ...Show more