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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Diamond Wars | Blood and Ch...

07.08.2020

It’s 1966 and De Beers is about to abandon its eleven-year search for diamonds in Botswana. But the geologist behind the search is far from ready to pack up his tools. And De Beers isn’t the only one searching for ...

Business Wars episodes:

07.08.2020 Diamond Wars \| Blood and Champagne \| 5 It’s 1966 and De Beers is about to abandon its eleven-year search for diamonds in Botswana. But the geologist behind the search is far from ready to pack up his tools. And De Beers isn’t the only one searching for ...
07.06.2020 Diamond Wars \| The Shadow World \| 4 It’s the early 1950s and West Africa’s growing number of diamond smugglers is causing headaches for De Beers. Faced with millions of pounds in losses, the diamond monopoly decides it’s time to get tough with the smugglers. But while De ...
07.02.2020 Introducing the Wondery+ Exclusive Season of Business Wars: Playboy vs Penthouse In our new after-dark exclusive series, we dive into the heyday of the 1970s, when Playboy and Penthouse rule the adult genre, and the line between sexy and obscene starts just below a woman’s belly button. But when it comes ...
07.01.2020 Diamond Wars \| Diamond Dogfight \| 3 It’s 1940, and the world is at war. The Allies and Axis powers are scrambling to lock down supplies of the industrial diamonds needed to mass produce their tanks, planes and submarines. But when the White House demands De Beers ...
06.29.2020 Diamond Wars \| The Puppet Master \| 2 It’s 1914 and De Beers’s monopoly is under threat. Diamonds have been discovered on the desolate coast of the German colony of South West Africa. So it hired an ambitious diamond expert named Ernest Oppenheimer and gave him his orders: ...
06.24.2020 Diamond Wars \| The Diamond Rush \| 1 It’s 1869 and diamonds have been found in Cape Colony. Now, diamond hunters from across the world are heading to this remote British outpost in southern Africa, seeking a glittering fortune. And among them are two wide-eyed hopefuls: streetwise Barney ...
06.22.2020 Uber vs Lyft \| Examining Toxic Company Culture in the Rideshare Industry \| 7 Uber and Lyft have made their mark as very different brands. Lyft was born out of a need for more environmentally friendly rideshare options. And is also seen as the “friendlier” of the two companies. While Uber’s former CEO, Travis ...
06.17.2020 Uber vs Lyft \| Evolve or Die \| 6 New CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is cleaning house after the departure of Travis Kalanick. But after a disappointing IPO, Khosrowshahi has to boost the company’s ailing financials and fight against lawmakers who are siding with aggrieved drivers. Then COVID-19 hits. Uber ...
06.15.2020 Uber vs Lyft \| Damage Control \| 5 February 2017, Super Bowl Sunday. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is taking a black car home when he gets in an altercation with the driver. LIttle does he know, the entire exchange has been captured on a dashcam recording. And when ...
06.10.2020 Uber vs Lyft \| Kill or Be Killed \| 4 Uber is facing blowback from all directions — the taxi industry, riders, and the most important man in tech: Apple's Tim Cook. Uber’s been engaged in some disreputable activity, and it's finally catching up with them. Lyft forges ahead and ...
06.08.2020 Uber vs Lyft \| Race to the Bottom \| 3 It's 2013, and Lyft's CEO John Zimmer is hosting a little celebration for drivers when some very unwelcome interlopers turn up to crash the party. Uber’s Travis Kalanick wants to destroy Lyft at any cost, and he's willing to do ...
06.03.2020 Uber vs Lyft \| Revenge Business \| 2 It's the late '90s, and Travis Kalanick is hanging out in his dorm room at UCLA. He’s having a file-sharing party with his friends that leads to his first business. But Kalanick’s forced to grow up quickly as he learns ...
06.01.2020 Uber vs Lyft \| Black Cars and Pink Mustaches \| 1 It’s December 2008, and two friends and fellow tech entrepreneurs, Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick, can't get a taxi. Camp’s already obsessed with the idea of a service that summons a private driver with the push of a button, but ...
05.27.2020 Business Battles \| Toilet Paper Wars: White Gold \| 4 Quarantine restrictions during the coronavirus have induced toilet paper panic-buying as people scratch, claw and punch each other to get rolls. But why? What’s behind the frenzy, and how will that affect the TP industry? In the last 150 years, ...
05.20.2020 Business Battles \| Tetris: Soviet Blocks \| 3 It’s 1988, and Tetris is making waves. It’s billed as the first Soviet video game, and it’s selling fast. But the man who introduced it to the West harbors a secret: he doesn’t own the rights. And when his subterfuge ...
05.18.2020 Business Battles \| Cola Space Race: One Giant Sip for Mankind \| 2 It’s 1984 and the cola war is neck and neck. After years of struggle, Pepsi looks ready to triumph over Coca-Cola. So Coke’s striking back by opening a new battlefront in the quest for soda supremacy: outer space. But its ...
05.13.2020 Business Battles \| Monopoly: Winner Takes All \| 1 It's 1902 and political campaigner Lizzie Magie is fighting a losing battle. For years, she’s pushed the idea of a land-value tax, but fewer and fewer people are listening. So she’s going to try something new to spread the word. ...
05.11.2020 Amazon vs Walmart \| How COVID-19 Could Change the Retail Landscape \| 7 Since the novel coronavirus hit, Amazon and Walmart have seen a rise in profits, unlike many other retailers. But there have also been struggles to keep up with the flood of customer demands during the pandemic. Hundreds of thousands of ...
05.07.2020 Sponsored: When Small Businesses Think Big - Chobani & Wrigley (Dell Podference) \| 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. In upstate New York, a Kurdish immigrant wants to make his ...
05.06.2020 Amazon vs Walmart - The Stealth Enemy \| 6 As the COVID-19 virus spreads across the globe and forces people inside their homes for months, the world relies on online shopping more than ever. Amazon and Walmart both struggle to keep up with surging demand as their legendary infrastructures ...
05.05.2020 Sponsored: When Small Businesses Think Big - Atari & Red Bull (Dell Podference) \| 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. In 1972, pinball machines and mechanical games ruled the arcades. Then, ...
05.04.2020 Amazon vs Walmart - Food Fight! \| 5 Amazon decides to go after Walmart’s biggest category: fresh food. But moving into groceries is harder than Bezos expected. Meanwhile, Walmart has finally found success in marrying their online operation with their brick and mortar stores by allowing consumers to ...
04.29.2020 Amazon vs Walmart - There’s No Business Like Shoe Business \| 4 Walmart finally decides to focus aggressively on its e-commerce division, but struggles with the best way to use the internet to reach consumers. They decide their best strategy is to buy up successful online retailers. Unbeknownst to Walmart, Amazon, which ...
04.27.2020 Amazon vs Walmart - Priming the Public \| 3 By the mid-2000s, Walmart is starting to show some cracks. They are still successful, but bad press and sluggish growth are taking a toll on their earnings. The company debates the best way to move forward, including focusing on online ...
04.23.2020 Introducing American History Tellers Join Lindsay Graham, host of Wondery’s American History Tellers as he takes you to the events, the times and the people that shaped American culture. In the new season, Rebellion in the Early Republic, he explores the 1780s where the ...
04.22.2020 Amazon vs Walmart - Provoking the Giant \| 2 In the late 1990s, Walmart is happily trucking along, dominating the American retail market. They’re expanding locations and increasing their own backend efficiencies to keep prices low. It’s a formula that’s worked for decades and they see no reason to ...
04.20.2020 Amazon vs Walmart - The Big Bang Theory of E-Commerce \| 1 Ninety-six percent of Americans now shop online, snapping up everything from rare coins to industrial-sized barrels of hand sanitizer. Almost half of those purchases take place on one website: Amazon. But before sales were a click away, Walmart was the ...
04.15.2020 An Inside Look at The North Face with Former CEO Hap Klopp \| 7 One of the key players in the story of The North Face is Hap Klopp, who in 1968, bought the then-burgeoning outdoor sports equipment store. He bought the company for the bargain price of $60,000. Klopp was CEO of The ...
04.13.2020 The North Face vs Patagonia - Eco-Samurai \| 6 It’s 2010 and Yvon Chouinard is about to give Patagonia’s executives their toughest challenge yet: telling people to buy less Patagonia gear. Meanwhile, The North Face is playing catch up on environmental responsibility with a spate on new initiatives. But ...
04.08.2020 The North Face vs Patagonia - Rescue Mission \| 5 It’s the late 1990s and The North Face is seeking to attract mainstream customers by opening hundreds of Summit Shops within the nation’s stores. But when the expected avalanche of sales fails to materialize, the company finds itself slipping over ...
04.06.2020 The North Face vs Patagonia - Zen and the Art of Business \| 4 It’s the dawn of the 1990s and Yvon Chouinard is struggling to come to terms with his new status as a successful entrepreneur. He cannot decide what to do with the fast-growing monster he’s created. Meanwhile, The North Face’s new ...
04.01.2020 The North Face vs Patagonia - Patagucci \| 3 It’s the late 1970s and Patagonia’s living hand to mouth and looking for a way to stoke sales. But when founder Yvon Chouinard suggests making a jersey from an unusual fabric, Patagonia creates a mountain staple and finds its products ...
03.30.2020 The North Face vs Patagonia - Blazing Trails \| 2 It’s 1970 and The North Face’s new owner Hap Klopp is on a mission to turn the dirtbag outdoor store he bought into an industry trailblazer. But with outdoor activity still a niche pastime, he’s going to have to do ...
03.25.2020 The North Face vs Patagonia - Dirtbags \| 1 It’s the 1960s, and two climbing buddies are about to lay the foundations for a new industry. The older of the two is an outdoorsman and part-time blacksmith Yvon Chouinard. His younger buddy is Doug Tompkins, who abandoned his Connecticut ...
03.23.2020 Starbucks vs Dunkin - Luckin: China’s Coffee Dark Horse \| 7 There’s no doubt that Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts have created empires throughout the U.S. and internationally. Starbucks has more than 15,000 locations in the U.S. alone, and Dunkin Donuts is now in 43 countries. But there could be yet ANOTHER ...
03.18.2020 Starbucks vs Dunkin - The Cold Rush \| 6 Dunkin and Starbucks are going full on 21st century, doing all they can to top each other with new concept stores, vast emporiums, vegan food options, oat milk lattes and “high- velocity innovations.” But the real world keeps intruding and ...
03.16.2020 Starbucks vs Dunkin - A Grande Fail \| 5 The Great Recession doesn’t play favorites and both Starbucks and Dunkin are hit hard. As more customers make coffee at home, Dunkin leans into its reputation as the “everyman’s brand” to lure them back. Meanwhile, Starbucks looks to cash in ...
03.11.2020 Starbucks vs Dunkin - Trouble is Brewing \| 4 Howard Schultz can hardly believe the mess his company is in, with sales in free fall. To pull out of it, he’ll need to make a radical move. Yet no matter what he does, Starbucks’ problems only get worse. And ...
03.09.2020 Starbucks vs Dunkin - Schultz vs The Bean Counters \| 3 Howard Schultz has found his mission. He’s burning to turn Starbucks into an espresso bar business, but he can’t convince Starbucks owners to get onboard. Back in the Northeast, Bill Rosenberg is frustrated too. His son, who’s now Dunkin Donut’s ...
03.04.2020 Starbucks vs Dunkin - Mission Espresso \| 2 While Dunkin Donuts expands and flourishes, Howard Schultz is bored. But then the 28-year-old New Yorker gets wind of a Seattle company with just four stores that’s selling more coffee makers than Macy’s. He’s got to know why. So he ...
03.02.2020 Starbucks vs Dunkin - A Steamy Culture Clash \| 1 A former high school dropout named Bill Rosenberg has big dreams and a passion for coffee. In 1950, in the small town of Quincy, Massachusetts he’s got a thriving coffee and donut shop called Dunkin Donuts. In front of the ...
02.24.2020 Nintendo vs Sony - No Surrender \| 6 After years of sitting on the sidelines of the next-generation console war, Nintendo is finally ready to make its move. But, the years it’s spent building it’s reassuring family-friendly reputation is now a weakness. Nintendo children of the 80s are ...
02.19.2020 Nintendo vs Sony - The Sleeping Giant \| 5 Nintendo decided early on that the Nintendo 64 would be a cartridge console, instead of a CD console. But CDs are much cheaper to make and have much better graphics. Game companies are upset, and defect to Sony. In a ...
02.17.2020 Nintendo vs Sony - Game Time \| 4 This is a story about Sony and Nintendo, but it also involves a little company called Sega. Ever play Sonic the Hedgehog? That’s Sega. And during Nintendo’s domination of the US market, they were the only company able to fight ...
02.12.2020 Nintendo vs Sony - Charm Offensive \| 3 From the moment it began, the PlayStation project was in danger. The problem was none other than PlayStations knight and chief advocate: Kutaragi. He thought the now-iconic handlebar controller design was “too different” from the flat rectangles people were used ...
02.10.2020 Nintendo vs Sony - Man of Steel \| 2 It's 1949. 22-year old Hiroshi Yamauchi is the heir apparent for his family's playing card company, Nintendo. From humble beginnings as a scrappy street stall founded in Kyoto's back alleys to the largest card company in Japan by the time ...
02.05.2020 Nintendo vs Sony - Stabbed in the Back \| 1 Once a symbol of 80s teenage nerdom, video games are now as common as television sets in American households. Can you imagine a world where the Sony PlayStation didn’t come out? That’s what almost happened. Originally conceived as a joint ...
01.27.2020 Boeing vs Airbus - The Max Controversy \| 7 For more than 50 years, a version of Boeing's 737 aircraft has sailed the skies, dominating the market for short-range, short-haul domestic planes. The 737 is the best-selling commercial aircraft of all time. But competition in the late 1980s got ...
01.22.2020 Boeing vs Airbus - Mayday \| 6 It’s 2011 and Airbus and Boeing are battling for the biggest deal in commercial aviation history. American Airlines is looking to buy 460 single-aisle airplanes and with the European jet giant going all out to win the contract, Boeing’s under ...
01.20.2020 Boeing vs Airbus - Losing Altitude \| 5 It’s the 2000s and after years of talk, Airbus is pushing ahead with its plan to build the biggest passenger jet in the world. But while Airbus is thinking bigger, Boeing’s thinking faster. It’s designing a near-supersonic aircraft called the ...

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07.08.2020 Diamond Wars \| Blood and Champagne \| 5 It’s 1966 and De Beers is about to abandon its eleven-year search for diamonds in Botswana. But the geologist behind the search is far from ready to pack up his tools. And De Beers isn’t the only one searching for ...
07.06.2020 Diamond Wars \| The Shadow World \| 4 It’s the early 1950s and West Africa’s growing number of diamond smugglers is causing headaches for De Beers. Faced with millions of pounds in losses, the diamond monopoly decides it’s time to get tough with the smugglers. But while De ...
07.02.2020 Introducing the Wondery+ Exclusive Season of Business Wars: Playboy vs Penthouse In our new after-dark exclusive series, we dive into the heyday of the 1970s, when Playboy and Penthouse rule the adult genre, and the line between sexy and obscene starts just below a woman’s belly button. But when it comes ...
07.01.2020 Diamond Wars \| Diamond Dogfight \| 3 It’s 1940, and the world is at war. The Allies and Axis powers are scrambling to lock down supplies of the industrial diamonds needed to mass produce their tanks, planes and submarines. But when the White House demands De Beers ...
06.29.2020 Diamond Wars \| The Puppet Master \| 2 It’s 1914 and De Beers’s monopoly is under threat. Diamonds have been discovered on the desolate coast of the German colony of South West Africa. So it hired an ambitious diamond expert named Ernest Oppenheimer and gave him his orders: ...
06.24.2020 Diamond Wars \| The Diamond Rush \| 1 It’s 1869 and diamonds have been found in Cape Colony. Now, diamond hunters from across the world are heading to this remote British outpost in southern Africa, seeking a glittering fortune. And among them are two wide-eyed hopefuls: streetwise Barney ...
06.22.2020 Uber vs Lyft \| Examining Toxic Company Culture in the Rideshare Industry \| 7 Uber and Lyft have made their mark as very different brands. Lyft was born out of a need for more environmentally friendly rideshare options. And is also seen as the “friendlier” of the two companies. While Uber’s former CEO, Travis ...
06.17.2020 Uber vs Lyft \| Evolve or Die \| 6 New CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is cleaning house after the departure of Travis Kalanick. But after a disappointing IPO, Khosrowshahi has to boost the company’s ailing financials and fight against lawmakers who are siding with aggrieved drivers. Then COVID-19 hits. Uber ...
06.15.2020 Uber vs Lyft \| Damage Control \| 5 February 2017, Super Bowl Sunday. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is taking a black car home when he gets in an altercation with the driver. LIttle does he know, the entire exchange has been captured on a dashcam recording. And when ...
06.10.2020 Uber vs Lyft \| Kill or Be Killed \| 4 Uber is facing blowback from all directions — the taxi industry, riders, and the most important man in tech: Apple's Tim Cook. Uber’s been engaged in some disreputable activity, and it's finally catching up with them. Lyft forges ahead and ...
06.08.2020 Uber vs Lyft \| Race to the Bottom \| 3 It's 2013, and Lyft's CEO John Zimmer is hosting a little celebration for drivers when some very unwelcome interlopers turn up to crash the party. Uber’s Travis Kalanick wants to destroy Lyft at any cost, and he's willing to do ...
06.03.2020 Uber vs Lyft \| Revenge Business \| 2 It's the late '90s, and Travis Kalanick is hanging out in his dorm room at UCLA. He’s having a file-sharing party with his friends that leads to his first business. But Kalanick’s forced to grow up quickly as he learns ...
06.01.2020 Uber vs Lyft \| Black Cars and Pink Mustaches \| 1 It’s December 2008, and two friends and fellow tech entrepreneurs, Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick, can't get a taxi. Camp’s already obsessed with the idea of a service that summons a private driver with the push of a button, but ...
05.27.2020 Business Battles \| Toilet Paper Wars: White Gold \| 4 Quarantine restrictions during the coronavirus have induced toilet paper panic-buying as people scratch, claw and punch each other to get rolls. But why? What’s behind the frenzy, and how will that affect the TP industry? In the last 150 years, ...
05.20.2020 Business Battles \| Tetris: Soviet Blocks \| 3 It’s 1988, and Tetris is making waves. It’s billed as the first Soviet video game, and it’s selling fast. But the man who introduced it to the West harbors a secret: he doesn’t own the rights. And when his subterfuge ...
05.18.2020 Business Battles \| Cola Space Race: One Giant Sip for Mankind \| 2 It’s 1984 and the cola war is neck and neck. After years of struggle, Pepsi looks ready to triumph over Coca-Cola. So Coke’s striking back by opening a new battlefront in the quest for soda supremacy: outer space. But its ...
05.13.2020 Business Battles \| Monopoly: Winner Takes All \| 1 It's 1902 and political campaigner Lizzie Magie is fighting a losing battle. For years, she’s pushed the idea of a land-value tax, but fewer and fewer people are listening. So she’s going to try something new to spread the word. ...
05.11.2020 Amazon vs Walmart \| How COVID-19 Could Change the Retail Landscape \| 7 Since the novel coronavirus hit, Amazon and Walmart have seen a rise in profits, unlike many other retailers. But there have also been struggles to keep up with the flood of customer demands during the pandemic. Hundreds of thousands of ...
05.07.2020 Sponsored: When Small Businesses Think Big - Chobani & Wrigley (Dell Podference) \| 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. In upstate New York, a Kurdish immigrant wants to make his ...
05.06.2020 Amazon vs Walmart - The Stealth Enemy \| 6 As the COVID-19 virus spreads across the globe and forces people inside their homes for months, the world relies on online shopping more than ever. Amazon and Walmart both struggle to keep up with surging demand as their legendary infrastructures ...
05.05.2020 Sponsored: When Small Businesses Think Big - Atari & Red Bull (Dell Podference) \| 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. In 1972, pinball machines and mechanical games ruled the arcades. Then, ...
05.04.2020 Amazon vs Walmart - Food Fight! \| 5 Amazon decides to go after Walmart’s biggest category: fresh food. But moving into groceries is harder than Bezos expected. Meanwhile, Walmart has finally found success in marrying their online operation with their brick and mortar stores by allowing consumers to ...
04.29.2020 Amazon vs Walmart - There’s No Business Like Shoe Business \| 4 Walmart finally decides to focus aggressively on its e-commerce division, but struggles with the best way to use the internet to reach consumers. They decide their best strategy is to buy up successful online retailers. Unbeknownst to Walmart, Amazon, which ...
04.27.2020 Amazon vs Walmart - Priming the Public \| 3 By the mid-2000s, Walmart is starting to show some cracks. They are still successful, but bad press and sluggish growth are taking a toll on their earnings. The company debates the best way to move forward, including focusing on online ...
04.23.2020 Introducing American History Tellers Join Lindsay Graham, host of Wondery’s American History Tellers as he takes you to the events, the times and the people that shaped American culture. In the new season, Rebellion in the Early Republic, he explores the 1780s where the ...
04.22.2020 Amazon vs Walmart - Provoking the Giant \| 2 In the late 1990s, Walmart is happily trucking along, dominating the American retail market. They’re expanding locations and increasing their own backend efficiencies to keep prices low. It’s a formula that’s worked for decades and they see no reason to ...
04.20.2020 Amazon vs Walmart - The Big Bang Theory of E-Commerce \| 1 Ninety-six percent of Americans now shop online, snapping up everything from rare coins to industrial-sized barrels of hand sanitizer. Almost half of those purchases take place on one website: Amazon. But before sales were a click away, Walmart was the ...
04.15.2020 An Inside Look at The North Face with Former CEO Hap Klopp \| 7 One of the key players in the story of The North Face is Hap Klopp, who in 1968, bought the then-burgeoning outdoor sports equipment store. He bought the company for the bargain price of $60,000. Klopp was CEO of The ...
04.13.2020 The North Face vs Patagonia - Eco-Samurai \| 6 It’s 2010 and Yvon Chouinard is about to give Patagonia’s executives their toughest challenge yet: telling people to buy less Patagonia gear. Meanwhile, The North Face is playing catch up on environmental responsibility with a spate on new initiatives. But ...
04.08.2020 The North Face vs Patagonia - Rescue Mission \| 5 It’s the late 1990s and The North Face is seeking to attract mainstream customers by opening hundreds of Summit Shops within the nation’s stores. But when the expected avalanche of sales fails to materialize, the company finds itself slipping over ...
04.06.2020 The North Face vs Patagonia - Zen and the Art of Business \| 4 It’s the dawn of the 1990s and Yvon Chouinard is struggling to come to terms with his new status as a successful entrepreneur. He cannot decide what to do with the fast-growing monster he’s created. Meanwhile, The North Face’s new ...
04.01.2020 The North Face vs Patagonia - Patagucci \| 3 It’s the late 1970s and Patagonia’s living hand to mouth and looking for a way to stoke sales. But when founder Yvon Chouinard suggests making a jersey from an unusual fabric, Patagonia creates a mountain staple and finds its products ...
03.30.2020 The North Face vs Patagonia - Blazing Trails \| 2 It’s 1970 and The North Face’s new owner Hap Klopp is on a mission to turn the dirtbag outdoor store he bought into an industry trailblazer. But with outdoor activity still a niche pastime, he’s going to have to do ...
03.25.2020 The North Face vs Patagonia - Dirtbags \| 1 It’s the 1960s, and two climbing buddies are about to lay the foundations for a new industry. The older of the two is an outdoorsman and part-time blacksmith Yvon Chouinard. His younger buddy is Doug Tompkins, who abandoned his Connecticut ...
03.23.2020 Starbucks vs Dunkin - Luckin: China’s Coffee Dark Horse \| 7 There’s no doubt that Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts have created empires throughout the U.S. and internationally. Starbucks has more than 15,000 locations in the U.S. alone, and Dunkin Donuts is now in 43 countries. But there could be yet ANOTHER ...
03.18.2020 Starbucks vs Dunkin - The Cold Rush \| 6 Dunkin and Starbucks are going full on 21st century, doing all they can to top each other with new concept stores, vast emporiums, vegan food options, oat milk lattes and “high- velocity innovations.” But the real world keeps intruding and ...
03.16.2020 Starbucks vs Dunkin - A Grande Fail \| 5 The Great Recession doesn’t play favorites and both Starbucks and Dunkin are hit hard. As more customers make coffee at home, Dunkin leans into its reputation as the “everyman’s brand” to lure them back. Meanwhile, Starbucks looks to cash in ...
03.11.2020 Starbucks vs Dunkin - Trouble is Brewing \| 4 Howard Schultz can hardly believe the mess his company is in, with sales in free fall. To pull out of it, he’ll need to make a radical move. Yet no matter what he does, Starbucks’ problems only get worse. And ...
03.09.2020 Starbucks vs Dunkin - Schultz vs The Bean Counters \| 3 Howard Schultz has found his mission. He’s burning to turn Starbucks into an espresso bar business, but he can’t convince Starbucks owners to get onboard. Back in the Northeast, Bill Rosenberg is frustrated too. His son, who’s now Dunkin Donut’s ...
03.04.2020 Starbucks vs Dunkin - Mission Espresso \| 2 While Dunkin Donuts expands and flourishes, Howard Schultz is bored. But then the 28-year-old New Yorker gets wind of a Seattle company with just four stores that’s selling more coffee makers than Macy’s. He’s got to know why. So he ...
03.02.2020 Starbucks vs Dunkin - A Steamy Culture Clash \| 1 A former high school dropout named Bill Rosenberg has big dreams and a passion for coffee. In 1950, in the small town of Quincy, Massachusetts he’s got a thriving coffee and donut shop called Dunkin Donuts. In front of the ...
02.24.2020 Nintendo vs Sony - No Surrender \| 6 After years of sitting on the sidelines of the next-generation console war, Nintendo is finally ready to make its move. But, the years it’s spent building it’s reassuring family-friendly reputation is now a weakness. Nintendo children of the 80s are ...
02.19.2020 Nintendo vs Sony - The Sleeping Giant \| 5 Nintendo decided early on that the Nintendo 64 would be a cartridge console, instead of a CD console. But CDs are much cheaper to make and have much better graphics. Game companies are upset, and defect to Sony. In a ...
02.17.2020 Nintendo vs Sony - Game Time \| 4 This is a story about Sony and Nintendo, but it also involves a little company called Sega. Ever play Sonic the Hedgehog? That’s Sega. And during Nintendo’s domination of the US market, they were the only company able to fight ...
02.12.2020 Nintendo vs Sony - Charm Offensive \| 3 From the moment it began, the PlayStation project was in danger. The problem was none other than PlayStations knight and chief advocate: Kutaragi. He thought the now-iconic handlebar controller design was “too different” from the flat rectangles people were used ...
02.10.2020 Nintendo vs Sony - Man of Steel \| 2 It's 1949. 22-year old Hiroshi Yamauchi is the heir apparent for his family's playing card company, Nintendo. From humble beginnings as a scrappy street stall founded in Kyoto's back alleys to the largest card company in Japan by the time ...
02.05.2020 Nintendo vs Sony - Stabbed in the Back \| 1 Once a symbol of 80s teenage nerdom, video games are now as common as television sets in American households. Can you imagine a world where the Sony PlayStation didn’t come out? That’s what almost happened. Originally conceived as a joint ...
01.27.2020 Boeing vs Airbus - The Max Controversy \| 7 For more than 50 years, a version of Boeing's 737 aircraft has sailed the skies, dominating the market for short-range, short-haul domestic planes. The 737 is the best-selling commercial aircraft of all time. But competition in the late 1980s got ...
01.22.2020 Boeing vs Airbus - Mayday \| 6 It’s 2011 and Airbus and Boeing are battling for the biggest deal in commercial aviation history. American Airlines is looking to buy 460 single-aisle airplanes and with the European jet giant going all out to win the contract, Boeing’s under ...
01.20.2020 Boeing vs Airbus - Losing Altitude \| 5 It’s the 2000s and after years of talk, Airbus is pushing ahead with its plan to build the biggest passenger jet in the world. But while Airbus is thinking bigger, Boeing’s thinking faster. It’s designing a near-supersonic aircraft called the ...

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Diamond Wars | Blood and Champagne | 5

Diamond Wars | The Shadow World | 4

Introducing the Wondery+ Exclusive Season of Business Wars: Playboy vs Penthouse

Diamond Wars | Diamond Dogfight | 3

Diamond Wars | The Puppet Master | 2

Diamond Wars | The Diamond Rush | 1

Uber vs Lyft | Examining Toxic Company Culture in the Rideshare Industry | 7

Uber vs Lyft | Evolve or Die | 6

Uber vs Lyft | Damage Control | 5

Uber vs Lyft | Kill or Be Killed | 4

Uber vs Lyft | Race to the Bottom | 3

Uber vs Lyft | Revenge Business | 2

Uber vs Lyft | Black Cars and Pink Mustaches | 1

Business Battles | Toilet Paper Wars: White Gold | 4

Business Battles | Tetris: Soviet Blocks | 3

Business Battles | Cola Space Race: One Giant Sip for Mankind | 2

Business Battles | Monopoly: Winner Takes All | 1

Amazon vs Walmart | How COVID-19 Could Change the Retail Landscape | 7

Sponsored: When Small Businesses Think Big - Chobani & Wrigley (Dell Podference) | 2

Amazon vs Walmart - The Stealth Enemy | 6

Sponsored: When Small Businesses Think Big - Atari & Red Bull (Dell Podference) | 1

Amazon vs Walmart - Food Fight! | 5

Amazon vs Walmart - There’s No Business Like Shoe Business | 4

Amazon vs Walmart - Priming the Public | 3

Introducing American History Tellers

Amazon vs Walmart - Provoking the Giant | 2

Amazon vs Walmart - The Big Bang Theory of E-Commerce | 1

An Inside Look at The North Face with Former CEO Hap Klopp | 7

The North Face vs Patagonia - Eco-Samurai | 6

The North Face vs Patagonia - Rescue Mission | 5

The North Face vs Patagonia - Zen and the Art of Business | 4

The North Face vs Patagonia - Patagucci | 3

The North Face vs Patagonia - Blazing Trails | 2

The North Face vs Patagonia - Dirtbags | 1

Starbucks vs Dunkin - Luckin: China’s Coffee Dark Horse | 7

Starbucks vs Dunkin - The Cold Rush | 6

Starbucks vs Dunkin - A Grande Fail | 5

Starbucks vs Dunkin - Trouble is Brewing | 4

Starbucks vs Dunkin - Schultz vs The Bean Counters | 3

Starbucks vs Dunkin - Mission Espresso | 2

Starbucks vs Dunkin - A Steamy Culture Clash | 1

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Nintendo vs Sony - The Sleeping Giant | 5

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