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SEASON 4 COMING Q2 2024!
 
It's the Season 3 Finale! We answer listener questions and meet the Yogurt King of New York:  Chobani's founder, Hamdi Ulkaya. From nomadic Turkish farmer to millionaire milk mogul, Ulkaya became known as the Anti-CEO, prioritizing people over profit and creating one of the fastest growing food companies in America. 
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01:30 - Listener Questions
How did you guys come up with this idea for the podcast? What’s the best / juiciest piece of corporate gossip that didn’t make the cut? Why are your seasons so short? I would pay for a subscription to get a weekly episode until the end of time! I'm a final year student in finance and I'm worried I have made a terrible mistake studying this degree, as it seems that corporations mostly cause more harm than [good], and benefits an elite few. is there any field you would recommend where I could use my degree for good? Is there a way that finance can be a force for good? Given the intricate web of corporate scandals involving entities like FTX, McKinsey, Koch Industries, SVB, etc. I'm curious to know: What common threads or distinct patterns have you observed across these cases, and how do these scandals reflect broader issues within the corporate landscape? Have there been any surprising twists or unique aspects in these stories that stand out to you guys, providing deeper insights into the world of corporate misconduct 18:00 - Chobani's Anti CEO 
Links: 
The Profile Dossier: Hamdi Ulukaya, the Shepherd-Turned-Billionaire CEO
Chobani CEO says pulling IPO was one of the best decisions company has made
Chobani hired hundreds of refugees at its plants. Average tenure now exceeds industry average
Chobani’s CEO is giving up to 10 percent of his company to employees
Capitalism and Humanitarianism Can Coexist. Chobani's CEO Is Trying to Prove It
 

In 2017 Carlos Ghosn was on top of the world, he was a Japanese national hero, renowned for bringing Nissan back to life from the brink of failure. His face was on the cover of magazines, his story was depicted in Manga, he even carried the torch at the Olympics in his home country of Brazil. His sudden arrest in 2018 for financial crimes was an unexpected twist in his story that made him the center of international intrigue. As extraordinary as his life had become, no one could have imagined what would come next... 
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5:40 - CG#1: Carlos Ghosn joins the growing number of wayward CEOs with daddy issues 
9:15 - CG#2:  Meet carlos’s car daddy: Francois Michilin 
17:40 - CG#3: It’s time for Carlos’ Makover montage! 
31:25 - CG#4: Carlos Ghosn enters his dwight schrute era
36:50 - CG#5: Ghosn follows the CEO playbook - time for an ostentatious company sponsored personal party that definitely will have no negative PR implications whatsoever
49:00 - CG#6: All Partied out!! 
52:33 - CG#7: What do they say? You either die a hero or live long enough to be smuggled out of Japan in an equipment box?
56:30 - CG#7: What do they say? You either die a hero or live long enough to be smuggled out of Japan in an equipment box?
 

Becca is joined by Corporate Gossip startup correspondent Aaron Cohn to dip our tube-socked toes into the FTX trial. We meet Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), a rumpled 28-year-old-grown-adult-boy-genius who built a $40 billion crypto empire in less than three years. But his meteoric rise to crypto kingpin was followed quickly by his fall to the bottom of shit-coin mountain.  And now, SBF is facing up to 115 years in federal prison for fraud. 
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17:40 - Corporate Gossip #1: Sam Bankman Fried raises $420.69m from 69 founders in a “meme” funding round and raises zero red flags
33:45 - Corporate Gossip #2: This guy can’t be a criminal… I mean, come on, have you ever seen a criminal in wrinkly cargo shorts???
45:00 -  Corporate Gossip #3:  To the moon! 
50:00 - Corporate Gossip #4: FTX: Fraud on top of shit mountain 
1:09:40 - Corproate Gossip #5: When people stop being polite, and start getting indicted
1:13:30 - Corporate Gossip #6: Will the Smol bean / Widdle baby defense work for Sam?

A very haunted episode of the Corporate Gossip Podcast! Becca and adam talk about the House of Villains that is Pacific Gas and Electric. The collection of CEOs that have lead the utility company over the past two decades are are more dubious than Omarosa and more dimwitted than Jax Taylor. On the upside, this episode should cure even the most chronic cases of imposter syndrome. 
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11:00 - “You guys need to stop talking about Enron” - said no one ever 
15:00 - Peter Darabee is possessed by the ghost of Jack Welch and then gets scammed by Accenture 
22:00 - Stay humble Tony Early
31:00 -Geisha Williams is rewarded for her job as pain sponge after the San Bruno explosions and is crowned CEO 
46:00 - Bill Johnson, blink and you’ll miss him  
53:00 - Patti Poppe: New decade, same bullshit 

It’s hard to talk about corporate gossip without talking about McKinsey. They're everywhere! They advise the biggest companies in every industry in practically every company in America (90% of the Fortune 100 companies use Mckinsey). From Las Vegas Casinos to the Vatican, McKinsey consultants, armed with their Thinkbooks and Tumi rollerbags, dispense their advice on maximizing the bottom line under a veil of secrecy.
That is until recently, when dogged reporters sifted through thousands of documents made public as part of a series of lawsuits and criminal investigations into the firm. Becca and Adam read through it all and are bringing you the juiciest stories. They find out that when it comes to systemic corporate malfeasance, McKinsey isn’t the one who lit the match, but they’re often found fanning the flames.
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10:00 - Corporate Gossip #1: McKinsey, this is why we can’t have nice things (Intro and background) 
30:00 - Corporate Gossip #2: If Jack Welch is Theresa Giudice, McKinsey is Juicy Joe and today’s billionaire boss-boys are 4 year-old Melania (How McKinsey influences the world's largest companies) 
52:00 - Corporate Gossip #3: McKinsey: Our consultants are happy to provide clean pee for your patients who are addicted to heroin!! (McKinsey's role in the Opiod Crisis) 
1:05:00 - Corporate Gossip #4: Enron is basically a McKinsey spinoff in which Jeff Skilling visits Ken Lay at the summer house in Montauk (McKinsey's role in the Enron rise & fall) 
1:09:00 - Corporate Gossip #5: If you’re looking for the Lizard people controlling the American economy it’s not the west coast elites… it’s McKinsey! (McKinsey as a Corporate Villian) 
1:15:00 - Corporate Gossip #6: Clarence Thomas really went - guys know what would make McKinsey better??? If they had access to more white men!! Hey now… white men who can take me on Yachts. (How the overturning of affirmative action plays into McKinsey's ability to continue weaponizing capitalism) 
 

This is part two of a two part episode. 
This week, Billy Koch turns into a corporate vigilante, as he takes the Department of Justice and the FBI on a private tour of the grounds where all the Koch corporate secrets are buried. We then tell the story of courtroom fight as dramatic as a Beverly Hills housewives reunion, with siblings rehashing decades-old conflicts and clawing at their share of billions of dollars. Then, Charles Koch continues his campaign to be voted “most-miserly” in the 2008 Billionaire Yearbook by funding an artificial-grassroots organization to promote his libertarian big business-first policies. Meanwhile, Bill Koch’s son Wyatt asks the Sharks to invest $100,000 for a 10% stake in his palm-beach-boroque men’s blouse line. 
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02:00 - Corporate Gossip #5: Woke up this mornin’ and I got myself some oil from Native American reservations 
11:30 - Corporate Gossip #6: Law and Order - Special Boss Bois Unit 
21:00 - Corporate Gossip #7: Profit is my religion and regulation is the devil!!  
24:15 - Corporate Gossip #8: It's a 45-day plan. 45 days! To get us back, on track. 45 points! It's a 45-day, 45-point, one point per day. We get 45 points, we're back in business! [cheers] And you can take that to the bank! And limo lady! We are going to completely destroy Barak OBAMA! [more cheers] I love you New York!
29:30 - Corporate Gossip #9: Charles Koch: Ooops! Did I do that????
33:00 - Corporate Gossip #10: Okay That was dark, let’s end on a high note - Bill Koch’s son’s quest to create the ugliest t-shirts of all time