Business Wars
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Business Wars
Netflix vs. HBO. Nike vs. Adidas. Business is war. Sometimes the prize is your wallet or your attention. Sometimes, it’s just the fun of beating the other guy. The outcome of these battles shapes what we buy and how we live. Business Wars gives you the unauthorized, real story of what drives these c...
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ENCORE: Beyond Meat vs Impossible Burger | Flame Broiled | 2
It’s 2016 and both Pat Brown’s Impossible Foods and Ethan Brown’s Beyond Meat are cooking up plant-based burgers for mass consumption. Ethan tries to...
ENCORE: Beyond Meat vs Impossible Burger | Pressure Cooker | 1
It's 2008 and two men, both vegans, ponder what they can do to improve the climate. Though they’re on separate sides of the country and in different p...
How Nvidia Owned A.I. | Once in a Lifetime | 2
Flush from its success in video game graphics, Nvidia sets its sights on turning its gaming chips into the tools that will power the next wave of comp...
How Nvidia Owned A.I. | Light Speed or Bust | 1
It’s the early 1990s and video games are about to go 3D. And in a Denny’s in Silicon Valley, three engineers are plotting to cash in on the transition...
The Many Deaths of Dungeons & Dragons | Game On | 3
Fifty years after its inception, Dungeons & Dragons has become more than just a fantasy game for nerds. It’s a cultural phenomenon, thanks in part to...
The Many Deaths of Dungeons & Dragons | A Kingdom Reborn | 2
After years of falling sales, Dungeons & Dragons’ publisher TSR is being dragged under by massive debts and in need of rescue. But as hopelessness tak...
The Many Deaths of Dungeons & Dragons | Wizards and Witch Hunts | 1
When Gary Gygax and his gaming pal Dave Arneson create Dungeons & Dragons, he believes he’s onto something special and starts a business called TSR to...
Listen Now: American Scandal | The West Memphis Three
On May 5, 1993, three 8-year-old boys were brutally murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas. The tiny local police department launches an investigation but...
Ozempic Wars | The Next Injection | 2
Novo Nordisk can't keep up with demand for Ozempic and Wegovy, giving competitor Eli Lilly the edge in the GLP-1 market. And off-brand competitors con...
Ozempic Wars | The Hundred-Year Duel | 1
When pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk developed a new medication for type 2 diabetes, they noticed that a welcome side effect was a small amount of w...
Gap's Revival | Better in Navy? | 3
The “Better in Denim” ad campaign put Gap back on the map for Gen Z — but are viral ads enough to fuel a comeback? Jordyn Holman of the New York Times...
Gap's Revival | Back in Blue | 2
It’s late 2023, and Gap’s new CEO Richard Dickson is trying to revive the brand’s fading fortunes. Dickson is the man who rescued Barbie from cultural...
Listen Now: American History Tellers | The Mayflower
The Cold War, Prohibition, the Gold Rush, the Space Race. Every part of your life - the words you speak, the ideas you share - can be traced to our hi...
Gap's Revival | Faded Khakis | 1
It’s 2016, and a fire is ripping through a Gap distribution center in Fishkill, New York. When the smoke clears, thousands of Gap T-shirts, khakis, an...
How Lululemon Won Athleisure | Mirror, Mirror | 2
It's the 2010s, and the athleisure market has exploded. As Lululemon has grown into one of the world's biggest athletic wear companies, brands like Ni...
How Lululemon Won Athleisure | Child's Pose | 1
In the late 90s, Canadian entrepreneur Chip Wilson identified a new market emerging in North America: young women taking on yoga as a hobby. Wilson re...
The Rise and Fall of Peloton | Pedal On | 3
Peloton’s pandemic hype and sales have died down and now, the company must determine what’s next. Lauren Thomas of the Wall Street Journal talks to us...
The Rise and Fall of Peloton | Maximum Effort | 2
As the Covid-19 pandemic rages, Peloton’s stock surges and the company scrambles to keep up with the new demand for its products. They pour millions o...
The Rise and Fall of Peloton | Welcome to the Ride | 1
In 2011, avid fitness fan John Foley comes up with an idea for an internet-connected exercise bike that allows users to experience the communal nature...
Dieselgate | Running on Fumes | 2
By 2014, Volkswagen has taken the U.S. auto market by storm with its fleet of affordable, fuel-efficient diesel cars. But a new study threatens to rev...
Dieselgate | Truth or Dare | 1
In 2007, Volkswagen's new CEO Martin Winterkorn sets his sights on besting GM and Toyota to become the top automaker in the world. But the company can...
The Great Sriracha Feud | If You Can't Stand the Heat | 3
Why has hot sauce gotten so - well, hot? Bon Appétit’s Joseph Hernandez sheds some light on the rise of condiment culture, and why the spicy stuff got...
The Great Sriracha Feud | Showdown | 2
The rift between David Tran’s Huy Fong Foods and Underwood Ranches becomes insurmountable. The two companies sue each other and wait for the courts to...
The Great Sriracha Feud | The Only Hot Sauce Billionaire | 1
In the early 80s, David Tran developed a sauce he called Sriracha; its popularity quickly spread among chefs and customers throughout Southern Califor...
McDonald's vs The Burger Revolution | The Price is Right | 2
The “better burger” business has been rapidly expanding across the United States and internationally, with chains like Five Guys and Shake Shack growi...
McDonald's vs The Burger Revolution | Better Burgers | 1
It's the mid-2000s, and new burger chains are popping up across the United States. Places like Five Guys and Shake Shack are touting their higher-qual...
Can Southwest Airlines Survive? | Bumpy Skies Ahead | 3
Southwest Airlines announced some big changes recently, and customers of the “Love Airline” are not feeling it. Joe Guinto, a business reporter who wr...
Can Southwest Airlines Survive? | Excess Baggage | 2
It’s 2023 and Southwest Airlines’ stock is in a nosedive. With costs ascending, Southwest CEO Bob Jordan freezes hiring and slashes spending. Amid all...
Can Southwest Airlines Survive? | Hard Landing | 1
It's 2021 and for the first time in nearly 50 years, Southwest Airlines posts an annual net loss. Amid the crisis, thousands of Southwest workers head...
The AOL Time Warner Disaster | TTYL, AOL | 4
Can you remember the last time you got mail from an AOL email address? Or fired off an IM? In the 1990s, AOL was the hottest name in cyberspace, but n...
The AOL Time Warner Disaster | Cold Case | 3
The AOL Time Warner merger is done. Now Jerry Levin and Steve Case must deliver on the bold promises. But will disharmony in the ranks and slumping ad...
The AOL Time Warner Disaster | The Deal of the Century | 2
When AOL and Time Warner find a way around their differences, the biggest merger in history is on. But when rivals attack and tech stocks meltdown, AO...
Listen Now: Lawless Planet
It’s not that hard to kill a planet. All it takes is a little drilling, some mining, a generous helping of pollution and voila! Earth over. When you t...
The AOL Time Warner Disaster | You've Got Mail | 1
It’s 1999 and America Online’s the hot stock of the dot.com boom. But when AOL’s CEO Steve Case gets nervous about the future, he settles on a bold pl...
Flipping the Bird: Elon vs Twitter | Tweets Aren't Loading Right Now | 6
Elon changes Twitter's algorithm to make himself king of the hill, but can he protect himself from public opinion?
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Flipping the Bird: Elon vs Twitter | Assassination Coordinates | 5
Elon goes on a banning spree. And even his most ardent supporters find themselves asking, is the battle over Twitter worth it?
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Flipping the Bird: Elon vs Twitter | Extremely Hardcore | 4
After Elon decimates the workforce in one fell swoop, chaos reigns supreme. Will Elon's dreams for a free and open Twitter turn into everyone's worst...
Listen Now: Flesh and Code
Travis never thought he’d meet someone like Lily Rose. She was kind, passionate, beautiful. The woman of his dreams. There was just one small detail:...
Flipping the Bird: Elon vs Twitter | Chief Twit | 3
Elon Musk seals his purchase of Twitter with a tweet: ""The bird is freed."" But everyone inside of Twitter soon starts to worry, will the bird soon b...
Flipping the Bird: Elon vs Twitter | I Am Supposed to Believe This Man is a Genius? | 2
Elon Musk makes the Twitter board an offer they can’t refuse — a $44 billion offer, to be exact. But this won’t be an easy marriage. No sooner does Tw...