Business History - Pushkin Industries

54 - Sam the Banana Man: Gunboats, Coups, and United Fruit

It’s the history of business. How did Hitler’s favorite car become synonymous with hippies? What got Thomas Edison tangled up with the electric chair? Did someone murder the guy who invented the movies? Former Planet Money hosts Jacob Goldstein and Robert Smith examine the surprising stories of businesses big and small and find out what you can learn from those who founded them.

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54 - Sam the Banana Man: Gunboats, Coups, and United Fruit

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52 - Hitler's Gift to the Hippies: The VW Beetle Story Part I – Rerun

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51 - King of the Roll-Ups: The Man Who Created a Trash Empire, Then Built Blockbuster Video

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50 - How Warren Buffet Built His Legacy By Finding Value No One Else Could See – Rerun

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49 - Herman Petty's Dream: The Struggles of the First Black American to Own a McDonald's

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48 - The Battle of Fort Frick and the Anarchist Assassin

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47 - Andrew Carnegie's War with his Workers

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46 - George Washington’s Trusted Tavern Guide: The Birth of the User Review

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45 - The DeLorean Saga: Fraud, Drug Deals and Marty McFly's Car

Wed, 19 Aug 2026
44 - The Tangled Story of Instant Ramen

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43 - Billy Beer: When American Beer Hit Bottom, Then Bounced Back

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42 - The Printing Press: The Invention Built on Debt and Sin

Wed, 29 Jul 2026
41 - The Robberiest Robber Baron: The Villainy of Jay Gould

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40 - The Factory That Was Wiped Off The Map (From Cautionary Tales)

Wed, 08 Jul 2026
39 - The Nobel Winners Who Almost Crashed the Economy

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38 - A Store Owner You Can Trust: John Wanamaker, Returns and the Price Tag

Wed, 24 Jun 2026
37 - The Boy Scout Who Brought us the Age of Disruption

Wed, 17 Jun 2026
36 - Ida Tarbell: The "Muckraker" Who Beat John D Rockefeller and Big Oil

Wed, 10 Jun 2026
35 - "Time is Money": How Ben Franklin's Sayings Created American Capitalism and Grind Culture

Wed, 03 Jun 2026
34 - The Founding Father Who Got Rich in the Revolution

Wed, 27 May 2026
33 - The Dumbest Business Ever... Shipping Melting Ice to Calcutta.

Wed, 20 May 2026
31 - The Match Maker Who Nearly Burned Down Wall Street

Wed, 13 May 2026
30 - Did "Neutron" Jack Welch Nuke GE?

Wed, 06 May 2026
29 - The Widow Who Ruled the Champagne World

Wed, 29 Apr 2026
28 - The Business of Staying Young and Living Forever (with Kara Swisher)

Wed, 22 Apr 2026
27 - Sinking the Global Economy: The Lloyds of London Story Part II

Wed, 15 Apr 2026
26 - The Insurers Who ALWAYS Paid Out: The Lloyds of London Story Part I

Wed, 08 Apr 2026
24 - Betting on Taylor Swift or Who'll Be Made Pope: The Past and Present of Prediction Markets

Wed, 25 Mar 2026
23 - Bowie, McCartney & Michael Jackson: How Songwriters Learned to Play Hardball

Wed, 18 Mar 2026
22 - How GM Beat Ford

Wed, 11 Mar 2026
21 - Henry Ford Invented the Modern World... Then Got Left Behind

Wed, 04 Mar 2026
20 - War, Exploration and Beer: How the Tin Can Changed the World

Wed, 25 Feb 2026
19 - The War on The A&P: When America Decided Cheap Groceries Were "Evil"

Wed, 18 Feb 2026
17 - When E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Tanked Atari

Wed, 11 Feb 2026
16 - How a Bad Boss Kickstarted Silicon Valley

Wed, 04 Feb 2026
15 - Sears: Cocaine Wine, Shotguns, and the World’s Tallest Tower

Wed, 28 Jan 2026
14 - De-Nazifying the Love Bug: The VW Beetle Story Part II

Wed, 21 Jan 2026
13 - Hitler's Gift to the Hippies: The VW Beetle Story Part I

Wed, 14 Jan 2026
12 - How Jim Simons Built a Machine That Beat the Market

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10 - Old Warren Buffett: "Never Invest in a Business You Cannot Understand"

Wed, 24 Dec 2025
9 - Young Warren Buffett: How to Find Value No One Else Can See

Wed, 17 Dec 2025
8 - How to Make Billions When the Bubble Bursts: Lessons from 1929

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7 - The Man who Sued Major League Baseball (Rather than go to Philly)

Wed, 03 Dec 2025
6 - Edison and the Movie Murder Mystery (The Edison Story Part 3)

Wed, 26 Nov 2025
5 - Edison, Tesla and the Electric Chair (The Edison Story Part 2)

Wed, 19 Nov 2025
4 - The Edison Invention People Don't Talk About (The Edison Story Part 1)

Wed, 12 Nov 2025
3 - The Secret of Southwest's Success: Free Whisky, Hot Pants and Low, Low Fares

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2 - Coming Soon: Business History with Robert Smith and Jacob Goldstein

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