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Digital business models podcast is hosted by Gennaro Cuofano, creator of FourWeekMBA.com, a leading source of insights for digital entrepreneurs. You can get the top-tier business education by following the Digital Business Models Podcast. We'll dissect business models, what makes tech and digital companies successful and more!

  1. EPISODE 1

    1. The History of AOL with Gerry Campbell

    In this episode, we explore the evolution of the Internet, from the perspective of AOL, and the rise of the first big tech giants. And how new players, like search engines, took over at the end of Web 1.0.

    1h 9m

  2. EPISODE 2

    2. The History of PayPal with Jimmy Soni [FourWeekMBA Podcast]

    PayPal was born as the merger of two early Internet startups, Confinity (founded by Max Levchin and Peter Thiel) and X.com (founded by Elon Musk). Both companies stumbled on a commercial killer feature (enabling Internet payments via email) and ended up being extremely useful on a nascent auction platform: eBay. From the merger of these companies, PayPal was born. And it wrote the Internet business playbook for startups. In this episode, we see the history of the early years with the author of The Founders, Jimmy Soni.

    1h 19m

  3. EPISODE 3

    3. The Ethereum Story With Matthew Leising [FourWeekMBA Podcast]

    Ethereum was launched in 2015 with its cryptocurrency, Ether, as an open-source, blockchain-based, decentralized platform software. Smart contracts are enabled, and Distributed Applications (dApps) get built without downtime or third-party disturbance. It also helps developers build and publish applications as it is also a programming language running on a blockchain.

    1h 17m

  4. EPISODE 4

    4. The WeWork Scandal With Eliot Brown [FourWeekMBA Podcast]

    WeWork was one of the most valuable startups in the 2010s, as it grew to become a multi-billion dollar company by 2015. It claimed it run a business model called space-as-a-service and it had managed to secure billions of dollars in investments from venture capital, mutual funds, and the most prominent tech investment funds until it almost went bankrupt as it tried to IPO in 2019.

    1 sec

  5. EPISODE 5

    The History of SpaceX With Eric Berger [FourWeekMBA Podcast]

    Initially an outsider, SpaceX has become the dominant player in the space industry. Started in 2002, by Elon Musk, after the exit from PayPal, SpaceX has changed the whole space industry, with its reusable rockets, and its ability to bring iterative design, in a hardware-heavy industry.

    57 min

  6. EPISODE 6

    6. The History of Trader Joe’s With Patty Civalleri [FourWeekMBA Podcast]

    Trader Joe's is an American chain of grocery stores, founded by Joe Coulombe, in Pasadena, in 1967. Trader Joe's evolved from a first small chain called Pronto Markets, which eventually led to Trader Joe's, the grocery store chain guaranteeing quality and low prices by leveraging intensive buying and virtual distribution and by targeting what Joe Coulombe called the overeducated, and underpaid, which was a niche market in the 1960s and yet it turned out to become the American middle class.

    1h 2m

  7. EPISODE 7

    7. The History of Bell Labs With Jon Gertner [FourWeekMBA Podcast]

    Between the end of the 1800s and until the 1950-60s, Bell Labs played a crucial role in developing the most critical innovations (from scaling the phone business to the first transistors), it revolutionized various industries. It opened the way to information theory and microprocessors. Therefore, giving birth to Silicon Valley.

    1h 1m

  8. EPISODE 8

    8. The History of Passive Investing With Robin Wigglesworth [FourWeekMBA Podcast]

    Passive investing is a long-term investment strategy based on holding securities that mimic the main financial indexes, thus mirroring stock market indexes and holding them long term. It's the opposite philosophy of active investing. Where active investing tries to beat the markets. Passive investing mimics them. The main advantage of this approach is the low-cost structure (given the low frequency of trading) and the lack of management fees that over time might eat up the whole ability of the portfolio to compound.

    1 hr

  9. EPISODE 9

    The History of Tesla, With Tim Higgins [FourWeekMBA Podcast]

    Founded in 2003, by Eberhard and Tarpenning, eventually, the initial co-founders left the company, and by 2004, Musk first became the main investor, and thereafter, by 2008, he took over as CEO of the company. Tesla would go through many near-death experiences, until 2018. And yet, by 2021, Tesla became a trillion-dollar company.

    1 sec

  10. EPISODE 10

    10. The History of Silicon Valley With Federico Faggin [FourWeekMBA Podcast]

    The Silicon Valley, an area in the southern San Francisco Bay Area of California, was commercially kicked off in the 1960s when William Shockley, leaving Bell Labs on the east coast, moved to California to start the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory. The company ceased operations by 1960, and yet Shockley had put together a team of people that turned out to found the first wave of semiconductors company, which created the PC market, on top of which the whole Silicon Valley would be built.

    1h 8m

  11. EPISODE 11

    11. History of Amazon With Brad Stone

    The History of Amazon With Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store and Amazon Unbound

    53 min

  12. EPISODE 12

    Human vs. Artificial Intelligence, interviewing Federico Faggin

    Listen to the full story of Silicon Valley with Federico Faggin: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2WkyQZmbbBzSUu7KSbXFNX?si=dsel-7bKRIeLocnHNBwb7g In this episode, we cover the following: - Neural networks, past vs. present - How human and artificial intelligence are fundamentally different - What's consciousness, and how it goes beyond classical physics - The limitations of AI - Is AGI coming? - How humans should make sense of this new AI revolution

    1h 6m
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Digital business models podcast is hosted by Gennaro Cuofano, creator of FourWeekMBA.com, a leading source of insights for digital entrepreneurs. You can get the top-tier business education by following the Digital Business Models Podcast. We'll dissect business models, what makes tech and digital companies successful and more!

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  • Creator
    Gennaro Cuofano
  • Episodes
    175
  • Seasons
    1
  • Rating
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