How We Got Here with Chris Kohler

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

    01:01:01||Season 1, Ep. 2
    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 Intro9:10 The VCR19:09 The War24:42 Hello Rental Industry28:15 Welcome To BlockBuster36:00 Huizenga40:27 Viacom Era44:51 Injured By DVD48:59 Enter The Wolf50:43 The Collapse
  • 1. How Nazi Brothers Changed Sports Marketing Forever

    01:11:06||Season 1, Ep. 1
    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 
  • Introducing.... How We Got Here

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    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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