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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 the mid 1800s and two very different young men set out in the world to make their fortunes. A young boy from Nantucket spends four years at sea on a whaling ship, the other becomes an itinerant peddler in the wilds of Indiana. These two adventurers, R.H. Macy and Adam Gim ...

Mitten im Dotcom-Boom zeigt sich auch, dass es im Kern eine Blase ist. Viele Firmen gehen bald wieder pleite. PayPal muss rasch wachsen, doch selbst millionenschwere Firmen verschwinden plötzlich wieder vom Markt. Die Lösung ist so einfach, dass man es kaum glauben möchte: Herden ...  Show more

During its formative years in the late 1990's, Paypal attracted an extraordinary group of young entrepreneurs, who then went on to build some of the best known companies in tech. They became known as The PayPal Mafia—and Max Levchin was one of the leaders. A computer ...

Chief joins the show to talk about the PayPal mafia. We get into their careers before PayPal, the massive deal they had with Ebay, where they are at now with their success, and more.

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...or, to be more strictly accurate, this episode covers the founding of AuctionWeb, the site that would become eBay. How Pierre Omidyar founded a company that brought auctions to the web and revolutionized what classified ads and ecommerce could be. Hosted on Acast. See acast.co ...  Show more