Business Wars

By Wondery

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What's Business Wars about?

Netflix vs. HBO. Nike vs. Adidas. Business is war. Sometimes the prize is your wallet, or your attention. Sometimes, it’s just the fun of beating the other guy. The outcome of these battles shapes what we buy and how we live.
Business Wars gives you the unauthorized, real story of what drives these companies and their leaders, inventors, investors and executives to new heights -- or to ruin. Hosted by David Brown, former anchor of Marketplace. From Wondery, the network behind Dirty John and American History Tellers.

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06.16.2021

It's July 2019. DoorDash is finally bigger than Grubhub, but it's coming under fire for pocketing tips from its drivers. Now DoorDash needs to rehab its image, or risk losing customers to its competitors. When a California proposition threatens to ...

Business Wars episodes:

06.16.2021 Food Delivery Wars \| Just Deserts \| 4 It's July 2019. DoorDash is finally bigger than Grubhub, but it's coming under fire for pocketing tips from its drivers. Now DoorDash needs to rehab its image, or risk losing customers to its competitors. When a California proposition threatens to ...
06.14.2021 Food Delivery Wars \| Deliver or Die \| 3 It's December 2014, and Grubhub's Matt Maloney is feeling the heat. Competitors are eating away at his market share, so he decides to change direction. Grubhub finally starts delivering food with its own drivers. But will it be enough to ...
06.09.2021 Food Delivery Wars \| Who's The Boss? \| 2 It's 1990 in Champaign, Illinois, and 15-year-old Tony Xu is washing dishes in the Chinese restaurant his mother manages. He wants to help people like his Mom, but it'll be many years before he hits on his solution for small ...
06.07.2021 Food Delivery Wars \| Hot Ticket \| 1 It's December 2011 in San Francisco. Bastian Lehmann is getting ready to launch his courier app, Postmates. But when he and his co-founders discover people want food delivered, not objects, they pivot to a business already cornered by Grubhub. Meanwhile, ...
06.02.2021 Encore: WWF vs WCW \| How AEW Dynamite Reignited the Wrestling War \| 7 WWE might have thwarted WCW’s effort to claim the pro wrestling crown, but after 20 years of unchallenged supremacy, a new competitor has entered the ring. Bankrolled by a billionaire sports owner and airing weekly on TNT, All Elite Wrestling ...
05.31.2021 Encore: WWF vs WCW \| Down for the Count \| 6 It’s 1998 and the slugfest between Vince McMahon’s WWF and Ted Turner’s WCW is reaching a critical juncture. McMahon’s on a mission to pull wrestling fans back to his TV shows with a strategy focused on maximum controversy. And to ...
05.26.2021 Encore: WWF vs WCW \| Shock Tactics \| 5 It’s 1996 and with Monday Nitro topping the TV ratings, WCW is out to end WWF’s time as the biggest player in the wrestling business. It’s plotting to establish two brands: one that WCW boss Eric Bischoff hopes can suck ...
05.24.2021 Encore: WWF vs WCW \| New World Order \| 4 It’s 1995 and the Monday Night Wars are underway. WCW’s new show Monday Nitro is grappling with the WWF’s Monday Night Raw to win TV viewers’ attention. WCW isn’t pulling its punches either. Under the command of Eric Bischoff, WCW ...
05.19.2021 Encore: WWF vs WCW \| Prime Time \| 3 It’s 1994 and WCW is stepping up its game. To get the jump on WWF, Ted Turner is writing big checks to steal away the WWF’s biggest stars and sponsors. And as WCW’s star power increases, so does its popularity ...
05.18.2021 Wondery Presents: The Vaping Fix Two young Silicon Valley entrepreneurs set out to rid the world of smoking with an incredible new product. The device stands to disrupt the tobacco industry and make them rich, until it falls into the wrong hands and lives are ...
05.17.2021 Encore: WWF vs WCW \| Bulking Up \| 2 It’s the dawn of the 1990s and Vince McMahon’s WWF is the king of wrestling. But trouble’s brewing: a steroids scandal is about to deal a body blow to the WWF and its family-friendly reputation. The scandal will leave WWF ...
05.14.2021 Sponsored: Small Business Stories \| Columbia Sportswear \| 2 This episode is brought to you by Wondery in partnership with Dell Technologies. In honor of small businesses, we're featuring inspiring stories of successful companies that started out small. It’s 1970 and Gert Boyle’s life is in ruins. Her husband’s ...
05.12.2021 Encore: WWF vs WCW \| Titan Rising \| 1 It’s the early 1980s and there’s peace in the wrestling business. For years regional wrestling companies have maintained order by sticking to their own slices of US and Canadian territory. But that’s all about to change. Vince McMahon has just ...
05.11.2021 Sponsored: Small Business Stories \| Domino's Pizza \| 1 This episode is brought to you by Wondery in partnership with Dell Technologies. In honor of small businesses, we're featuring inspiring stories of successful companies that started out small. It’s 1961 and Tom Monaghan is about to drop out of ...
05.10.2021 Vaccine Wars \| Big Pharma's Big Gamble Pays Off \| 7 BioNTech, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca. These companies are now household names thanks to their COVID-19 vaccines. The gambles these businesses took are paying off. The pharmaceutical giants are in line to profit heavily from their life-saving work, but the ...
05.05.2021 Vaccine Wars \| Arms Race \| 6 It’s late 2020 and the first vaccines are going into arms across the world. With supplies tight, the nations of the world are pushing and shoving to get their shots, and investors are salivating at the thought of the profits ...
05.03.2021 Vaccine Wars \| Trials and Tribulations \| 5 It’s fall 2020 and the world’s waiting for the first results from the vaccine trials. But as the moment of truth nears, the pressure on the vaccine makers intensifies. And while AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson get hit with curveballs, ...
04.28.2021 Vaccine Wars \| Warp Speed \| 4 It’s summer 2020 and with Covid infections surging across America, the Trump administration’s ready to spend billions to get a vaccine fast. For vaccine makers — who face the enormous costs of rapidly upscaling manufacturing and pushing their shots through ...
04.26.2021 Vaccine Wars \| Long Shot \| 3 It’s February 2020 and drugmaker Moderna’s sprinting ahead – its Covid vaccine is already poised to enter human trials. But Moderna and its rivals know plenty of vaccines never make it out of trials alive. It’s also going to take ...
04.21.2021 Vaccine Wars \| The Hype Cycle \| 2 It’s 25 years before the pandemic and at the University of Pennsylvania a Hungarian biochemist is fighting a one-woman campaign to figure out how to create mRNA vaccines. But no one wants to fund her research and every lab rat ...
04.19.2021 Vaccine Wars \| This is Not a Drill \| 1 It’s early January 2020, and a mysterious new virus is overtaking the city of Wuhan, China. At first the outbreak barely makes the news, but as the threat comes into focus, scientists spring into action to make a vaccine. But ...
04.14.2021 KFC vs Chick-fil-A \| The Fried Chicken Future \| 7 After decades in KFC’s shadow, Chick-fil-A rode a wave of chicken sandwich obsession to industry dominance. But for how long? Will consumers tire of the relative simplicity of fried chicken in between two pieces of bread? For more on the ...
04.13.2021 David Brown on The Art of Business Wars \| 7 Our new book, The Art of Business Wars, takes fans through stories they've heard on Business Wars and some that are completely new. Host David Brown is joined by Next Big Idea's Rufus Griscom to discuss how the book came ...
04.12.2021 KFC vs Chick-fil-A \| Sandwichmania \| 6 It’s the the early 2000’s and the animal rights group PETA accuses KFC of cruelty in their poultry processing and creating “Frankenchickens.” As KFC revenues tumble, Chick-fil-A surges ahead, cultivating fanatic customers with opening day parties and lavish food giveaways. ...
04.07.2021 KFC vs Chick-fil-A \| The Colonel’s Last Stand \| 5 It’s the 1970’s and Kentucky Fried Chicken has yet another new owner: Heublein, the company known for introducing Americans to Smirnoff’s vodka. But KFC brand ambassador Harland Sanders creates a PR fiasco by accusing his new corporate bosses of letting ...
04.06.2021 The Art of Business Wars Lesson 4: Positioning oo often in business, taking two positions is the same as taking none. You can only carve out one at a time — so choose wisely. To read more lessons from The Art of Business Wars and to order your ...
04.05.2021 KFC vs Chick-fil-A \| The Henhouse Heats Up \| 4 It’s the late 1960s and Kentucky Fried Chicken’s new owner takes the rapidly expanding franchise public. America’s hottest new IPO makes dozens of employees instant millionaires, but not Harland Sanders, who sold his company for cash. Now brand ambassador, Sanders ...
03.31.2021 KFC vs Chick-fil-A \| The Birth of the Bucket \| 3 It’s the 1950s in Kentucky and Harland Sanders faces bankruptcy once again. 65-years-old, broke, unemployed and desperate, he barnstorms the country, living out of his car, selling his secret fried chicken recipe to restaurant and diner owners. Franchising is a ...
03.29.2021 KFC vs Chick-fil-A \| Fast Fists and Failure \| 2 It’s the 1900’s and a young Harland Sanders learns how to cook out of sheer necessity when his widowed mother leaves him at home to care for his younger brother and sister. Crushing poverty prompts his mother to loan him ...
03.24.2021 KFC vs Chick-fil-A \| Guns, Guts, and Gravy \| 1 It's the Great Depression, and in one of Kentucky’s toughest corners, Harland Sanders defends his gas station business with sheer moxie and a loaded shotgun. He expands it into a thriving motel and restaurant, but impatient tourists balk at long ...
03.22.2021 Late Night Wars \| Late Night for the TikTok Generation \| 7 Since the disruption of the broadcast viewing experience, late night comedy has gone through some growing pains. It’s no longer must-see TV, but late night water cooler moments remain as fiery political segments go viral online. For more on how ...
03.17.2021 Late Night Wars \| Late Night Stars Collide \| 6 Jay Leno takes it on the chin from NBC when the network informs him his future as Tonight Show host has a looming shelf life. He needs to hand the keys to Conan O’Brien, who doesn’t want to be stuck ...
03.15.2021 Late Night Wars \| A Darker Night Ahead \| 5 CBS makes David Letterman a very attractive offer to leave NBC—a move he’s very willing to make—but his long-time network is desperate to keep him. So desperate they dangle the prize that Letterman felt he deserved all along—the Tonight Show. ...
03.10.2021 Late Night Wars \| There Goes Johnny! \| 4 When longtime Tonight Show host Johnny Carson shocks NBC with the surprise announcement of his departure, Jay Leno is anointed as the next host of the network’s flagship franchise. But there’s a problem: after a decade hosting Late Night at ...
03.08.2021 Late Night Wars \| Late Night Explodes \| 3 Johnny Carson – the man who defined the Tonight show – is nearing retirement. But NBC has yet to settle on an heir. And that sets the stage for one of the most painful moments for the late night rivals ...
03.03.2021 Late Night Wars \| The Dawn of Tonight \| 2 The late night saga begins in the uncharted wilderness of after-hours programming. In the early 1950s, an era when television broadcasting literally stops at 11:00 p.m., NBC dares to push the envelope with something called the Tonight Show. It works. ...
03.01.2021 Late Night Wars \| The Stars Realign \| 1 The cutthroat evolution of late-night talk shows is a long and fierce battle for advertising riches, ratings and sheer egotistical triumph. It’s the early 1980s and NBC’s Tonight Show is the unbeatable standard in its class, and its long-time host ...
02.24.2021 Estée Lauder vs L'Oréal \| How Influencers Are Changing the Beauty Industry \| 7 As the beauty business shifts towards boutique brands and upstarts, traditional titans of the industry like L'Oreal and Esteé Lauder are struggling to maintain a foothold. At the center of this cultural shift are beauty influencers, who are reaching a ...
02.22.2021 Estée Lauder vs L'Oréal \| Lipstick Lockdown \| 6 It’s 2007, and the L'Oréal founding family is thrust into the media spotlight when a scandal erupts. The daughter of Liliane Bettencourt, heiress to the company fortune, accuses a family friend of exploiting her mother’s dementia. But the ensuing investigation ...
02.17.2021 Estée Lauder vs L'Oréal \| Buying Spree \| 5 It’s 1991, and after the financial crash of 1987, Estée Lauder is looking for a new way to continue expanding without sinking millions of dollars and several years into developing a new brand. The answer lies in acquisitions, and they ...
02.15.2021 Estée Lauder vs L'Oréal \| Face to Face \| 4 It’s 1979 and Estée Lauder is on top of the world after launching another in-house brand, Prescriptives. But after decades of being primarily known for hair products, L'Oréal is ready to invade the American high-end makeup market. And their secret ...
02.10.2021 Estée Lauder vs L'Oréal \| Skin in the Game \| 3 It’s 1962, and Estée Lauder is on fire, with well-received new products helping solidify their position as the top high-end makeup brand. But Revlon is hot on their tails, and to fend off the threat the Lauders decide to develop ...
02.08.2021 Estée Lauder vs L'Oréal \| Do or Dye \| 2 It's 1904, and ambitious French chemist Eugène Schueller quits his job as a researcher to focus on formulating the first synthetic hair dye. Teaming up with Parisian hairdressers to spread the word about his product, he soon expands into hair ...
02.03.2021 Estée Lauder vs L'Oréal \| Telephone, Telegraph, Tell-A-Woman \| 1 It’s 1946, and after years of building a cult following thanks to free samples and loyal customers, Estée Lauder finally has an opportunity to join the big leagues. She can now sell her high-quality makeup products in department stores in ...
02.01.2021 SpaceX vs Blue Origin \| To Infinity And Beyond \| 7 As the Space Race moves into the present day, Elon Musk recoups SpaceX’s losses and edges ahead of Blue Origin. But now his competition is coming not just from Jeff Bezos, but from like-minded dreamers in Russia and China. For ...
01.27.2021 SpaceX vs Blue Origin \| The Next Generation \| 6 It's 2016 and Virgin Galactic is about to re-enter the space race following its fatal test flight two years earlier. But the company's early lead in human spaceflight is eroding fast. Blue Origin, Boeing and SpaceX are closing in. The ...
01.25.2021 SpaceX vs Blue Origin \| Space War \| 5 It's 2013 and the long cold war between Blue Origin and SpaceX is about to go nuclear. The clash begins when NASA puts its most famous launchpad up for lease, and escalates fast. Soon SpaceX, Blue Origin, and the United ...
01.20.2021 SpaceX vs Blue Origin \| Rise of the Dragon \| 4 It's 2009 and a new president is looking to shake up the space world by opening up the stars to private industry. But with NASA’s space shuttle about to retire, the United States soon won't be able to reach the ...
01.18.2021 SpaceX vs Blue Origin \| Burning Up \| 3 It's 2005 and SpaceX is about to find itself exiled to a tropical island, but this is no vacation. It's in a race against time to get the Falcon 1 rocket into orbit before Musk's millions runs out. But as ...
01.13.2021 SpaceX vs Blue Origin \| Reaching for the Stars \| 2 It's 2003 and in the Mojave Desert, renegade aviation genius Burt Rutan is building a spaceship funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. But while Rutan and Allen are preparing to launch the world's first privately funded astronaut, Elon Musk and ...

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06.16.2021 Food Delivery Wars \| Just Deserts \| 4 It's July 2019. DoorDash is finally bigger than Grubhub, but it's coming under fire for pocketing tips from its drivers. Now DoorDash needs to rehab its image, or risk losing customers to its competitors. When a California proposition threatens to ...
06.14.2021 Food Delivery Wars \| Deliver or Die \| 3 It's December 2014, and Grubhub's Matt Maloney is feeling the heat. Competitors are eating away at his market share, so he decides to change direction. Grubhub finally starts delivering food with its own drivers. But will it be enough to ...
06.09.2021 Food Delivery Wars \| Who's The Boss? \| 2 It's 1990 in Champaign, Illinois, and 15-year-old Tony Xu is washing dishes in the Chinese restaurant his mother manages. He wants to help people like his Mom, but it'll be many years before he hits on his solution for small ...
06.07.2021 Food Delivery Wars \| Hot Ticket \| 1 It's December 2011 in San Francisco. Bastian Lehmann is getting ready to launch his courier app, Postmates. But when he and his co-founders discover people want food delivered, not objects, they pivot to a business already cornered by Grubhub. Meanwhile, ...
06.02.2021 Encore: WWF vs WCW \| How AEW Dynamite Reignited the Wrestling War \| 7 WWE might have thwarted WCW’s effort to claim the pro wrestling crown, but after 20 years of unchallenged supremacy, a new competitor has entered the ring. Bankrolled by a billionaire sports owner and airing weekly on TNT, All Elite Wrestling ...
05.31.2021 Encore: WWF vs WCW \| Down for the Count \| 6 It’s 1998 and the slugfest between Vince McMahon’s WWF and Ted Turner’s WCW is reaching a critical juncture. McMahon’s on a mission to pull wrestling fans back to his TV shows with a strategy focused on maximum controversy. And to ...
05.26.2021 Encore: WWF vs WCW \| Shock Tactics \| 5 It’s 1996 and with Monday Nitro topping the TV ratings, WCW is out to end WWF’s time as the biggest player in the wrestling business. It’s plotting to establish two brands: one that WCW boss Eric Bischoff hopes can suck ...
05.24.2021 Encore: WWF vs WCW \| New World Order \| 4 It’s 1995 and the Monday Night Wars are underway. WCW’s new show Monday Nitro is grappling with the WWF’s Monday Night Raw to win TV viewers’ attention. WCW isn’t pulling its punches either. Under the command of Eric Bischoff, WCW ...
05.19.2021 Encore: WWF vs WCW \| Prime Time \| 3 It’s 1994 and WCW is stepping up its game. To get the jump on WWF, Ted Turner is writing big checks to steal away the WWF’s biggest stars and sponsors. And as WCW’s star power increases, so does its popularity ...
05.18.2021 Wondery Presents: The Vaping Fix Two young Silicon Valley entrepreneurs set out to rid the world of smoking with an incredible new product. The device stands to disrupt the tobacco industry and make them rich, until it falls into the wrong hands and lives are ...
05.17.2021 Encore: WWF vs WCW \| Bulking Up \| 2 It’s the dawn of the 1990s and Vince McMahon’s WWF is the king of wrestling. But trouble’s brewing: a steroids scandal is about to deal a body blow to the WWF and its family-friendly reputation. The scandal will leave WWF ...
05.14.2021 Sponsored: Small Business Stories \| Columbia Sportswear \| 2 This episode is brought to you by Wondery in partnership with Dell Technologies. In honor of small businesses, we're featuring inspiring stories of successful companies that started out small. It’s 1970 and Gert Boyle’s life is in ruins. Her husband’s ...
05.12.2021 Encore: WWF vs WCW \| Titan Rising \| 1 It’s the early 1980s and there’s peace in the wrestling business. For years regional wrestling companies have maintained order by sticking to their own slices of US and Canadian territory. But that’s all about to change. Vince McMahon has just ...
05.11.2021 Sponsored: Small Business Stories \| Domino's Pizza \| 1 This episode is brought to you by Wondery in partnership with Dell Technologies. In honor of small businesses, we're featuring inspiring stories of successful companies that started out small. It’s 1961 and Tom Monaghan is about to drop out of ...
05.10.2021 Vaccine Wars \| Big Pharma's Big Gamble Pays Off \| 7 BioNTech, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca. These companies are now household names thanks to their COVID-19 vaccines. The gambles these businesses took are paying off. The pharmaceutical giants are in line to profit heavily from their life-saving work, but the ...
05.05.2021 Vaccine Wars \| Arms Race \| 6 It’s late 2020 and the first vaccines are going into arms across the world. With supplies tight, the nations of the world are pushing and shoving to get their shots, and investors are salivating at the thought of the profits ...
05.03.2021 Vaccine Wars \| Trials and Tribulations \| 5 It’s fall 2020 and the world’s waiting for the first results from the vaccine trials. But as the moment of truth nears, the pressure on the vaccine makers intensifies. And while AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson get hit with curveballs, ...
04.28.2021 Vaccine Wars \| Warp Speed \| 4 It’s summer 2020 and with Covid infections surging across America, the Trump administration’s ready to spend billions to get a vaccine fast. For vaccine makers — who face the enormous costs of rapidly upscaling manufacturing and pushing their shots through ...
04.26.2021 Vaccine Wars \| Long Shot \| 3 It’s February 2020 and drugmaker Moderna’s sprinting ahead – its Covid vaccine is already poised to enter human trials. But Moderna and its rivals know plenty of vaccines never make it out of trials alive. It’s also going to take ...
04.21.2021 Vaccine Wars \| The Hype Cycle \| 2 It’s 25 years before the pandemic and at the University of Pennsylvania a Hungarian biochemist is fighting a one-woman campaign to figure out how to create mRNA vaccines. But no one wants to fund her research and every lab rat ...
04.19.2021 Vaccine Wars \| This is Not a Drill \| 1 It’s early January 2020, and a mysterious new virus is overtaking the city of Wuhan, China. At first the outbreak barely makes the news, but as the threat comes into focus, scientists spring into action to make a vaccine. But ...
04.14.2021 KFC vs Chick-fil-A \| The Fried Chicken Future \| 7 After decades in KFC’s shadow, Chick-fil-A rode a wave of chicken sandwich obsession to industry dominance. But for how long? Will consumers tire of the relative simplicity of fried chicken in between two pieces of bread? For more on the ...
04.13.2021 David Brown on The Art of Business Wars \| 7 Our new book, The Art of Business Wars, takes fans through stories they've heard on Business Wars and some that are completely new. Host David Brown is joined by Next Big Idea's Rufus Griscom to discuss how the book came ...
04.12.2021 KFC vs Chick-fil-A \| Sandwichmania \| 6 It’s the the early 2000’s and the animal rights group PETA accuses KFC of cruelty in their poultry processing and creating “Frankenchickens.” As KFC revenues tumble, Chick-fil-A surges ahead, cultivating fanatic customers with opening day parties and lavish food giveaways. ...
04.07.2021 KFC vs Chick-fil-A \| The Colonel’s Last Stand \| 5 It’s the 1970’s and Kentucky Fried Chicken has yet another new owner: Heublein, the company known for introducing Americans to Smirnoff’s vodka. But KFC brand ambassador Harland Sanders creates a PR fiasco by accusing his new corporate bosses of letting ...
04.06.2021 The Art of Business Wars Lesson 4: Positioning oo often in business, taking two positions is the same as taking none. You can only carve out one at a time — so choose wisely. To read more lessons from The Art of Business Wars and to order your ...
04.05.2021 KFC vs Chick-fil-A \| The Henhouse Heats Up \| 4 It’s the late 1960s and Kentucky Fried Chicken’s new owner takes the rapidly expanding franchise public. America’s hottest new IPO makes dozens of employees instant millionaires, but not Harland Sanders, who sold his company for cash. Now brand ambassador, Sanders ...
03.31.2021 KFC vs Chick-fil-A \| The Birth of the Bucket \| 3 It’s the 1950s in Kentucky and Harland Sanders faces bankruptcy once again. 65-years-old, broke, unemployed and desperate, he barnstorms the country, living out of his car, selling his secret fried chicken recipe to restaurant and diner owners. Franchising is a ...
03.29.2021 KFC vs Chick-fil-A \| Fast Fists and Failure \| 2 It’s the 1900’s and a young Harland Sanders learns how to cook out of sheer necessity when his widowed mother leaves him at home to care for his younger brother and sister. Crushing poverty prompts his mother to loan him ...
03.24.2021 KFC vs Chick-fil-A \| Guns, Guts, and Gravy \| 1 It's the Great Depression, and in one of Kentucky’s toughest corners, Harland Sanders defends his gas station business with sheer moxie and a loaded shotgun. He expands it into a thriving motel and restaurant, but impatient tourists balk at long ...
03.22.2021 Late Night Wars \| Late Night for the TikTok Generation \| 7 Since the disruption of the broadcast viewing experience, late night comedy has gone through some growing pains. It’s no longer must-see TV, but late night water cooler moments remain as fiery political segments go viral online. For more on how ...
03.17.2021 Late Night Wars \| Late Night Stars Collide \| 6 Jay Leno takes it on the chin from NBC when the network informs him his future as Tonight Show host has a looming shelf life. He needs to hand the keys to Conan O’Brien, who doesn’t want to be stuck ...
03.15.2021 Late Night Wars \| A Darker Night Ahead \| 5 CBS makes David Letterman a very attractive offer to leave NBC—a move he’s very willing to make—but his long-time network is desperate to keep him. So desperate they dangle the prize that Letterman felt he deserved all along—the Tonight Show. ...
03.10.2021 Late Night Wars \| There Goes Johnny! \| 4 When longtime Tonight Show host Johnny Carson shocks NBC with the surprise announcement of his departure, Jay Leno is anointed as the next host of the network’s flagship franchise. But there’s a problem: after a decade hosting Late Night at ...
03.08.2021 Late Night Wars \| Late Night Explodes \| 3 Johnny Carson – the man who defined the Tonight show – is nearing retirement. But NBC has yet to settle on an heir. And that sets the stage for one of the most painful moments for the late night rivals ...
03.03.2021 Late Night Wars \| The Dawn of Tonight \| 2 The late night saga begins in the uncharted wilderness of after-hours programming. In the early 1950s, an era when television broadcasting literally stops at 11:00 p.m., NBC dares to push the envelope with something called the Tonight Show. It works. ...
03.01.2021 Late Night Wars \| The Stars Realign \| 1 The cutthroat evolution of late-night talk shows is a long and fierce battle for advertising riches, ratings and sheer egotistical triumph. It’s the early 1980s and NBC’s Tonight Show is the unbeatable standard in its class, and its long-time host ...
02.24.2021 Estée Lauder vs L'Oréal \| How Influencers Are Changing the Beauty Industry \| 7 As the beauty business shifts towards boutique brands and upstarts, traditional titans of the industry like L'Oreal and Esteé Lauder are struggling to maintain a foothold. At the center of this cultural shift are beauty influencers, who are reaching a ...
02.22.2021 Estée Lauder vs L'Oréal \| Lipstick Lockdown \| 6 It’s 2007, and the L'Oréal founding family is thrust into the media spotlight when a scandal erupts. The daughter of Liliane Bettencourt, heiress to the company fortune, accuses a family friend of exploiting her mother’s dementia. But the ensuing investigation ...
02.17.2021 Estée Lauder vs L'Oréal \| Buying Spree \| 5 It’s 1991, and after the financial crash of 1987, Estée Lauder is looking for a new way to continue expanding without sinking millions of dollars and several years into developing a new brand. The answer lies in acquisitions, and they ...
02.15.2021 Estée Lauder vs L'Oréal \| Face to Face \| 4 It’s 1979 and Estée Lauder is on top of the world after launching another in-house brand, Prescriptives. But after decades of being primarily known for hair products, L'Oréal is ready to invade the American high-end makeup market. And their secret ...
02.10.2021 Estée Lauder vs L'Oréal \| Skin in the Game \| 3 It’s 1962, and Estée Lauder is on fire, with well-received new products helping solidify their position as the top high-end makeup brand. But Revlon is hot on their tails, and to fend off the threat the Lauders decide to develop ...
02.08.2021 Estée Lauder vs L'Oréal \| Do or Dye \| 2 It's 1904, and ambitious French chemist Eugène Schueller quits his job as a researcher to focus on formulating the first synthetic hair dye. Teaming up with Parisian hairdressers to spread the word about his product, he soon expands into hair ...
02.03.2021 Estée Lauder vs L'Oréal \| Telephone, Telegraph, Tell-A-Woman \| 1 It’s 1946, and after years of building a cult following thanks to free samples and loyal customers, Estée Lauder finally has an opportunity to join the big leagues. She can now sell her high-quality makeup products in department stores in ...
02.01.2021 SpaceX vs Blue Origin \| To Infinity And Beyond \| 7 As the Space Race moves into the present day, Elon Musk recoups SpaceX’s losses and edges ahead of Blue Origin. But now his competition is coming not just from Jeff Bezos, but from like-minded dreamers in Russia and China. For ...
01.27.2021 SpaceX vs Blue Origin \| The Next Generation \| 6 It's 2016 and Virgin Galactic is about to re-enter the space race following its fatal test flight two years earlier. But the company's early lead in human spaceflight is eroding fast. Blue Origin, Boeing and SpaceX are closing in. The ...
01.25.2021 SpaceX vs Blue Origin \| Space War \| 5 It's 2013 and the long cold war between Blue Origin and SpaceX is about to go nuclear. The clash begins when NASA puts its most famous launchpad up for lease, and escalates fast. Soon SpaceX, Blue Origin, and the United ...
01.20.2021 SpaceX vs Blue Origin \| Rise of the Dragon \| 4 It's 2009 and a new president is looking to shake up the space world by opening up the stars to private industry. But with NASA’s space shuttle about to retire, the United States soon won't be able to reach the ...
01.18.2021 SpaceX vs Blue Origin \| Burning Up \| 3 It's 2005 and SpaceX is about to find itself exiled to a tropical island, but this is no vacation. It's in a race against time to get the Falcon 1 rocket into orbit before Musk's millions runs out. But as ...
01.13.2021 SpaceX vs Blue Origin \| Reaching for the Stars \| 2 It's 2003 and in the Mojave Desert, renegade aviation genius Burt Rutan is building a spaceship funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. But while Rutan and Allen are preparing to launch the world's first privately funded astronaut, Elon Musk and ...

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Food Delivery Wars | Just Deserts | 4

Food Delivery Wars | Deliver or Die | 3

Food Delivery Wars | Who's The Boss? | 2

Food Delivery Wars | Hot Ticket | 1

Encore: WWF vs WCW | How AEW Dynamite Reignited the Wrestling War | 7

Encore: WWF vs WCW | Down for the Count | 6

Encore: WWF vs WCW | Shock Tactics | 5

Encore: WWF vs WCW | New World Order | 4

Encore: WWF vs WCW | Prime Time | 3

Wondery Presents: The Vaping Fix

Encore: WWF vs WCW | Bulking Up | 2

Sponsored: Small Business Stories | Columbia Sportswear | 2

Encore: WWF vs WCW | Titan Rising | 1

Sponsored: Small Business Stories | Domino's Pizza | 1

Vaccine Wars | Big Pharma's Big Gamble Pays Off | 7

Vaccine Wars | Arms Race | 6

Vaccine Wars | Trials and Tribulations | 5

Vaccine Wars | Warp Speed | 4

Vaccine Wars | Long Shot | 3

Vaccine Wars | The Hype Cycle | 2

Vaccine Wars | This is Not a Drill | 1

KFC vs Chick-fil-A | The Fried Chicken Future | 7

David Brown on The Art of Business Wars | 7

KFC vs Chick-fil-A | Sandwichmania | 6

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