Latest Business history Podcast Episodes
Walk On The Blade: The Marc Rich & Co Commodities Story
RIP Corp - June 26, 2024 10:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsRIP Corp is a Charts & Leisure production. Find us at ripcorp.biz, or follow in places @ripcorpdotbiz for all your dead business needs. To support the show, please consider aligning yourself even more deeply with the brand, via our merch shop: ripcorp.threadless.com RIP Corp is written and ho...
Capitalism Quest: The Sierra Online Story
RIP Corp - March 20, 2024 10:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsRIP Corp is a Charts & Leisure production. Find us at ripcorp.biz, or follow in places @ripcorpdotbiz for all your dead business needs. To support the show, please consider aligning yourself even more deeply with the brand, via our merch shop: ripcorp.threadless.com RIP Corp is written and ho...
2023 Corporate In Memoriam
RIP Corp - December 28, 2023 11:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsRIP Corp is a Charts & Leisure production. Find us at ripcorp.biz, or follow in places @ripcorpdotbiz for all your dead business needs. To support the show, please consider aligning yourself even more deeply with the brand, via our merch shop: ripcorp.threadless.com RIP Corp is written and ho...
$2500 and a Dream: Fansteel and the History of Tantalum
RIP Corp - December 13, 2023 11:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsRIP Corp is a Charts & Leisure production. Find us at ripcorp.biz, or follow in places @ripcorpdotbiz for all your dead business needs. To support the show, please consider aligning yourself even more deeply with the brand, via our merch shop: ripcorp.threadless.com RIP Corp is written and ho...
RIP Docs: The Vice Bankruptcy
RIP Corp - September 13, 2023 10:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsVice bankruptcy documents: https://cases.stretto.com/vice/ RIP Corp is a Charts & Leisure production. Find us at ripcorp.biz, or follow in places @ripcorpdotbiz for all your dead business needs. To support the show, please consider aligning yourself even more deeply with the brand, via our me...
Little Paper Guys: An Overview of Corporate Personhood
RIP Corp - August 16, 2023 10:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsRIP Corp is a Charts & Leisure production. Find us at ripcorp.biz, or follow in places @ripcorpdotbiz for all your dead business needs. To support the show, please consider aligning yourself even more deeply with the brand, via our merch shop: ripcorp.threadless.com RIP Corp is written and ho...
The Story of This Town is Failure: Fairchild Semiconductor and Its Children
RIP Corp - June 08, 2023 10:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsRIP Corp is a Charts & Leisure production. Find us at ripcorp.biz, or follow us @ripcorpdotbiz on Twitter and Instagram, for all your dead business needs. To support the show, please consider aligning yourself even more deeply with the brand, via our merch: ripcorp.threadless.com RIP Corp is...
Why Do We Keep Dead Company Merch?
RIP Corp - October 12, 2022 10:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsRIP Corp is a Charts & Leisure production. Find us at ripcorp.biz, or follow us @ripcorpdotbiz on Twitter and Instagram, for all your dead business needs. To support the show, please consider aligning yourself even more deeply with the brand, via our merch: ripcorp.threadless.com RIP Corp is...
Cosplay Cops and Special Ops: Baldwin-Felts and the West Virginia Mine War
RIP Corp - March 15, 2022 10:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsRIP Corp is a Charts & Leisure production. Find us at ripcorp.biz, or follow us @ripcorpdotbiz on Twitter and Instagram, for all your dead business needs. RIP Corp is written and hosted by Ingrid Burrington, with research and fact-checking from Matt Giles. Produced by Meghal Janardan and Mike ...
Sex, Lies and Classifieds: The Fall of Backpage
RIP Corp - October 07, 2021 10:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsRIP Corp is a Charts & Leisure production. Find us at ripcorp.biz, or follow us @ripcorpdotbiz on Twitter and Instagram, for all your dead business needs. Special thanks this episode to Melissa Gira Grant and Samantha Schuyler. RIP Corp is written and hosted by Ingrid Burrington, with research...
Minisode — Failing Upward: Dan Snyder and The Six Flags of Football Teams
RIP Corp - April 29, 2021 10:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsRIP Corp is a Charts & Leisure production. Find us at ripcorp.biz, or follow us @ripcorpdotbiz on Twitter and Instagram, for all your dead business needs. RIP Corp is written and hosted by Ingrid Burrington, with research and fact-checking from Matt Giles. Produced by Meghal Janardan and Mike ...
In Space No One Can Hear You Sell
RIP Corp - March 23, 2021 10:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsPlease check out all the books (past and forthcoming) about space stuff (also past and forthcoming) authored by contributors to this episode: Space Settlements by Fred Scharmen | Rare Earth Frontiers by Dr. Julie Michelle Klinger | Asteroids: How Love, Fear, and Greed Will Determine Our Future ...
Pierced Ears to Private Equity: The Rise and Fall of Claire’s
RIP Corp - January 28, 2021 11:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsRIP Corp is a Charts & Leisure production. Find us at ripcorp.biz, or follow us @ripcorpdotbiz on Twitter and Instagram, for all your dead business needs. RIP Corp is written and hosted by Ingrid Burrington, with research and fact-checking from Matt Giles. Produced by Meghal Janardan and Mike ...
It’s a Wonderful RIP Corp Holiday Special
RIP Corp - December 24, 2020 11:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsRIP Corp is a Charts & Leisure production. Find us at ripcorp.biz, or follow us @ripcorpdotbiz on Twitter and Instagram, for all your dead business needs. RIP Corp is written and hosted by Ingrid Burrington, with research and fact-checking from Matt Giles. Produced by Meghal Janardan and Mike ...
Blockbuster and Enron and Chill
RIP Corp - October 21, 2020 10:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsRIP Corp is a Charts & Leisure production. Find us at ripcorp.biz, or follow us @ripcorpdotbiz on Twitter and Instagram, for all your dead business needs. RIP Corp is written and hosted by Ingrid Burrington, with research and fact-checking from Matt Giles. Produced by Meghal Janardan and Mike ...
Welcome to RIP Corp
RIP Corp - October 07, 2020 14:49 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsComing soon! RIP Corp is a production of Charts & Leisure, hosted by Ingrid Burrington. Theme music by Andrew Atkin & Michael Simonelli. Art and design by Beatriz Lozano and Megan Mulholland.
Brain Sentry
Why Didn't I Think of That?® - April 23, 2020 12:00 - 20 minutesFootball is a killer game. But should it be killing our kids? One entrepreneur is trying to prevent that. According to a study by the American Academy of Pediatrics, 40% of all sports-related concussions happen to children, ages 8 to 13. That inspired health care entrepreneur Greg Merril to devel...
Amazing Cosmetics
Why Didn't I Think of That?® - April 23, 2020 08:00 - 28 minutesIt began over an exercise bike. That’s where dissatisfaction with a makeup ingredient inspired two friends to launch a new cosmetics business. A company whose reach quickly extended beyond their Illinois hometown. A chance encounter with a Hollywood make-up artist was key to their early success....
PACCAR
TAKEOFF - March 03, 2020 00:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWhile the Northwest is well-known for its iconic technology, retail, and consumer companies, it is also home to the world's leading manufacturer of heavy-duty trucks! Join Marc and Dan as they go for a drive with PACCAR, maker of Kenworth, Peterbilt, and DAF Trucks.
Sally Robinson: The dot com success story from a remote farm in Yorkshire
Tech Business History - May 29, 2019 15:00 - 23 minutesSally Robinson and her husband ran their farm in Yorkshire, along with a small bed and breakfast business that Sally looked after. When Sally heard about the Internet in 1999, she realised it could provide an opportunity to further diversify the farming business. She converted a couple of the ou...
Tan Rasab: How WCities nearly conquered the world
Tech Business History - May 22, 2019 12:00 - 44 minutesWCities was a London startup that provided local reviews written by a global team of freelancers - a kind of precursor to TripAdvisor. Its young founder, Tan Rasab, jumped on the dot com bandwagon early, hoping that his website could make money with banner advertising. When, along with many othe...
Toby Rowland: Journalists needed crazy dot coms like us to write about
Tech Business History - May 15, 2019 08:00 - 36 minutesToby Rowland was the co-founder of one of Britain's best-known dot com startups - a health site called Clickmango. He and his partner had no trouble raising £3 million, or spending it as fast as they could, at the urging of their investors, in a year and a half. They hired Joanna Lumley to promo...
Eva Pascoe: Making the Internet cool in London
Tech Business History - May 08, 2019 12:00 - 49 minutesEva Pascoe came to London from her native Poland to study human-computer interaction and psychology. In 1994, she founded Cyberia, possibly the world's first Internet cafe, which was described by Wired magazine as “the most fashionable cafe in '90s London”. Backed by Mick Jagger, and visited, un...
Rory Cellan-Jones: The rise and fall of dot com Britain
Tech Business History - May 01, 2019 12:00 - 25 minutesAs a BBC journalist, Rory-Cellan Jones witnessed the brief dot com boom in the UK, followed by the bust. Among the big stories, he covered the birth of Freeserve, Lastminute, Firebox and Clickmango - many of them headed by relatively privileged young people who'd come from Oxbridge or business s...
Darryl Mattocks: Selling books online before Amazon
Tech Business History - April 14, 2019 18:00 - 46 minutesThis week's guest started an online bookshop that was probably the first in the world. He’s not Jeff Bezos but he is, arguably, Britain’s answer to the founder of Amazon. He’s Darryl Mattocks and he was selling books online in 1994 - a year ahead of Amazon. In fact Mr Bezos later came to the UK ...
Costco Wholesale
TAKEOFF - March 08, 2019 21:39 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsCostco changed shopping with its massive scale and deeply curated approach to retailing. Marc and Dan discuss how the company quietly became one of the biggest retailers in the world, selling 137 million hotdogs at $1.50 a piece and an astounding quantity of pretty much everything else.
Starbucks Coffee Co.
TAKEOFF - March 08, 2019 21:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsStarbucks redefined coffee. What was once a cheap and simple way to start the day at home morphed into a sophisticated (and expensive) ritual in highly stylized environment thanks to the vision and execution of entrepreneur Howard Schultz and his team. Marc and Dan debate the cultural...
Boeing
TAKEOFF - March 08, 2019 21:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn our inaugural episode, we discuss Boeing, the first Pacific Northwest company that took off globally. From its incongruous start as a timber company, the Boeing Company developed into the world's largest aerospace company and brought the world closer together through its remarkable feats of e...
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