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Business Movers Wondery
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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
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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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Leveling Up Nintendo | Jumpman
Nintendo launches an American subsidiary, but the company struggles until it releases an innovative platform game that introduces the world to an iconic new hero.
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Leveling Up Nintendo | The Game's The Game
In the aftermath of a crash in the video game industry, Minoru Arakawa moves Nintendo into the home console market and takes full advantage when the recovery begins.
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Leveling Up Nintendo | Sega Powers Up
Nintendo finds itself in competition with a spikey new character designed to knock Mario from the top of the charts.
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Leveling Up Nintendo | The Final Boss
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Just as Nintendo and Minoru Arakawa finally see off rival Sega, a different threat emerges and opens a new front in the Console Wars: Sony’s PlayStation. -
Steering Cunard Off the Rocks | Full Head of Steam
In the 19th Century, Samuel Cunard wins a contract to deliver mail from Britain to North America by steamship - a new technology that will make transatlantic travel faster than ever before. His company goes on to become the Cunard Line. It will carry millions of immigrants to the new world, serve in two world wars, and dominate the transatlantic passenger business - until another new technology emerges to threaten the illustrious company’s future.
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Steering Cunard Off the Rocks | Containing the Comet
Cunard’s business is devastated by the advent of the passenger jet airliner. The company’s unlikely savior is Basil Smallpeice, a senior airline accountant who moves to Cunard in the hopes of rescuing the ship he helped hole beneath the waterline.
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Customer Reviews
Fordlandia—Henry Ford’s Paradise (Season 35)
As much as a micro-manager Henry Ford was, I was surprised to learn he never visited Brazil (Fordlandia). I have lived overseas, once being several years in the tropics—one cannot live as a North American in that climate unless you want to make life rough for yourself—the local culture has figured out how to live WITH that climate instead of against it! By listening to podcasts (and episodes like Season 35), I can’t believe how much history I did NOT know (and what behind closed-door decisions were made) which have big longtime impacts in people’s lives down the road. Thanks for this great history lesson!
One of my favorite podcasts
I listen to this podcast all the time. I really like how the podcast is structured, but I think that they should release episodes more often. My favorite thing about this podcast is what subjects they chose and how relevant they are to our modern world.
Campy delivery of otherwise decent content
The dramatized delivery of these business stories just doesn’t land for me, very campy and over the top. The content and premise is good, but the packaging just isn’t for me.