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Kohler Media episodes

  • How Kodak Engineered Its Own Demise (Literally)

    Kodak didn’t make a mistake. The digital camera was invented in their own building but it was missing more than film. It was missing a business model.


    0:00 Intro

    3:15 Two Truths & A Lie

    4:15 The Man Who Gave Everyone A Camera

    15:40 Advertising Done To Perfection

    23:06 Welcome Steve

    35:25 The Point

    39:15 The Ending

    44:10 Two Truths & A lie



    Madmen Scene - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq3n2sJ43Hg&t=4s


    A Long Time In Finance w/ Steve Sasson - https://open.spotify.com/episode/407q6PT4umq9BVECyJsLhy

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    49 min
  • Kellogg’s: The Disturbing Reason Corn Flakes Exist

    This episode contains adult topics and themes


    Ever wondered how the world's most popular cereal ended up in your breakfast bowl?

    The story behind Cornflakes is stranger than you'd think, meet John Harvey Kellogg, the man whose obsession with gut health and moral purity accidentally changed the way the world eats breakfast.


    0:00 Intro

    5:40 Two truths and a lie

    7:30 The religious pipeline

    10:40 Picking the doctor

    13:35 The San

    17:45 Gut Health

    24:34 The anti masturbation crusade

    29:41 The accidental invention

    35:11 The rival next door

    37:26 The brothers split

    43:52 A note on more dark stuff

    46:06 The end

    50:42 Two truths and a lie

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    56 min
  • Blockbuster blew $8 billion. We’re still paying for it

    A complete corporate disaster.


    Blockbuster stuffed up so badly that the world started walking down a path away from one-off payments and towards subscriptions. And the best part is, Blockbuster's demise was baked in from the start. It just grew so fast the problems were hard to see... for a few years.


    0:00 Intro

    9:10 The VCR

    19:09 The War

    24:42 Hello Rental Industry

    28:15 Welcome To BlockBuster

    36:00 Huizenga

    40:27 Viacom Era

    44:51 Injured By DVD

    48:59 Enter The Wolf

    50:43 The Collapse

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    1 hr 2 min
  • How Nazi Brothers Changed Sports Marketing Forever

    Adidas vs. Puma. Two brothers. One town. A feud that changed sport forever.

     

    Adolf and Rudolf began as partners, cobbling shoes together in central Germany before a family fallout split them into bitter rivals. What followed was decades of corporate warfare, played out on the world's biggest stages, that transformed sports marketing into one of the most powerful industries of the 20th century.


    Howe We Got Here

     

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    1 hr 12 min
  • Introducing.... How We Got Here

    Business history is wilder than you think.

     

    Join finance journalist and digital storyteller, Chris Kohler, as he delves into the corporate moments that were too ridiculous to make up, but too important to ignore. The deals that collapsed empires. The decisions that accidentally built them. The scandals that still echo through every boardroom today. Tested and refined through millions of social media views, these are the stories that explain why modern business looks the way it does.

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    1 min

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Money, business and the economy, with a few laughs along the way.