Business Movers
by Wondery
Behind every successful business is a story. It starts with a vision and a leap of faith. Along the way, leaders make bold decisions, ride booms and busts, and sometimes, they reach new heights. From Wondery, the makers of the hit series Business Wars, and Lindsay Graham, the host of American History Tellers and American Scandal, comes a weekly podcast that brings you the true stories of the brilliant but all-too-human businesspeople who risked it all. From Walt Disney’s creation of a theme park in Orlando, to the colossal failure of New Coke, Business Movers will explore the triumphs, failures and ideas that transformed our lives.
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Episodes
Milton Hershey: The Lord of Chocolate | The Chocolate City | 2
35m · PublishedAs construction on the Hershey Chocolate Company’s new factory nears completion, Milton and his team work tirelessly to develop a recipe for mass-producing milk chocolate. But success is just a steppingstone to Milton’s greater goal - building a utopian town for his workers in the Pennsylvania countryside. In the idyllic town of Hershey, there will be no poverty, no illiteracy - and one man will be king.
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Milton Hershey: The Lord of Chocolate | Sweet Success | 1
36m · PublishedAfter two failed candy businesses, the confectioner Milton Hershey discovers a new recipe for making caramels and starts the Lancaster Caramel Company. The business makes him a millionaire, but he quickly becomes interested in the seductive promise of a new product: chocolate.
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Listen Now: Six Trophies with Shea Serrano and Jason Concepcion
7m · PublishedShea Serrano and Jason Concepcion are back! And this time they’re combing through all the NBA news from the past week and handing out six pop culture-themed trophies to six basketball-related activities. Every week, superlatives will reign down on basketball culture like Steph Curry threes when Jason and Shea dish out hoops honors like they’re Stockton to Malone running a pick & roll. Was that too many analogies for one sentence? Hell yes, but get used to it!
On this new NBA pop culture show from Wondery, the guys will honor the most magical and messy moments from the NBA and beyond by handing out hardware like “The Step Brothers Catalina Wine Mixer” Trophy for the matchup they’re most excited about. Or “The Liam Neeson ‘I Have a Very Particular Set of Skills’ Trophy given to an aging player who proves they still got it. And on and on. Till the break of dawn.
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Cisco: The Founder's Dilemma | How Founders and Investors Can Get Along | 5
45m · PublishedEntrepreneur Elizabeth Zalman and investor Jerry Neumann examine the often-difficult relationship between company founders and venture capitalists, and discuss how to avoid the spectacular disagreements experienced by Sandy Lerner.
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Cisco: The Founder's Dilemma | A Decaying Partnership | 4
34m · PublishedSandy Lerner pivots industries dramatically, pairing up with a friend to create a make-up company that specializes in unconventional colors. But now that Sandy has money to invest on her own, she becomes just as ruthless as Don Valentine, the venture capitalist who pushed Sandy out of Cisco.
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Cisco: The Founder's Dilemma | Ousted | 3
33m · PublishedCisco goes public. It’s a financial windfall for all involved, including co-founders Sandy Lerner and Len Bosack. But the tensions behind-the- scenes at the company reach breaking point and force Sandy and Len into a monumental decision.
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Cisco: The Founder's Dilemma | Venture Lost | 2
33m · PublishedAfter two years of running Cisco out of their home, Sandy and Len have finally grown Cisco to a point where it makes modest profits and they can afford an actual office. To reach the next level, they’ll need to step out of their bubble and form a partnership with an investor. But not all matches are made in heaven.
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Cisco: The Founder's Dilemma | Making Connections | 1
34m · PublishedWhile working for Stanford University in the 1980s, married couple Sandy Lerner and Len Bosack help invent a technology that allows computers of different makes and models to talk to each other for the first time. But they risk financial ruin when they decide to commercialize their invention.
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Building Lego | Toy Expert Chris Byrne on the rise of Lego | 5
37m · PublishedToy industry expert Chris Byrne discusses Lego’s rise to the top of the toy industry and how its focus on one core product has guided the company to success over the decades.
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Building Lego | Next Generation | 4
34m · PublishedFollowing a family tragedy, Godtfred Kirk Christiansen prepares to hand over his company to the next generation—but first he must reinvent Lego for the modern age.
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Business Movers has 324 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 188:18:24. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on August 20th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 31st, 2024 06:48.