Napster vs The Record Labels - Free is Costly...

With all the hype around portable and smart speakers, it’s easy to forget that they didn’t always exist. In fact, it took one fateful meeting with Monster Cables and Interscope Records to really kick the industry off. In this one-episode Business Battle, we explore the time wh ...

It’s April 2011, and Evan Spiegel is about to present his class project. Right now, it's called Picaboo. Soon, it's going to become Snapchat. But for Spiegel, this is more important than grades--at stake are potential investors and the future of communication as we know it.

Wir schreiben das Jahr 2000. Die Plattenindustrie wacht gerade erst auf, als sie eine große Bedrohung für ihr Geschäftsmodell entdeckt: ein Online-Tauschbörsensystem, das von einem 17-jährigen Jungen aus Massachusetts entwickelt wurde. Mit Napster können Nutzerinnen und Nutzer Mu ...  Show more

#729 Most people never take the leap to pursue the life they've always wanted. Often, it's because they're too afraid to quit their traditional jobs. That's why I've invited Brian Luebben of The Action Academy Podcast on the show to share the blueprint for achieving y ...

As part of the band Pomplamoose, musician Jack Conte had a sizeable fan base in the late 2000s and was making thousands of dollars a month from iTunes sales. But when streaming services like Spotify took over the music scene, Jack's income dwindled. So he called up his college ro ...  Show more

In 2016, Nuseir Yassin quit his cushy tech job to embark on a journey around the globe. The idea was simple: post a one-minute video every day for 1,000 days to show the world from his perspective. 

The execution, of course, was much more challenging...

This w ...