Coke vs Pepsi - The Imitator's Revenge | 4
28 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Pepsi Generation. As Pepsi fires up a hot new ad campaign, Coca-Cola starts getting n...
Coke vs Pepsi - Cola über Alles | 3
23 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With world war on the horizon, Coca-Cola and Pepsi face a supply crisis. How to get enough sugar to ...
Coke vs Pepsi - Candy Monster | 2
21 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The cola cops are coming. Pepsi, an upstart Coca-Cola imitator, grabs its rival’s attention by ser...
Coke vs Pepsi - Cocaine is King | 1
16 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In turn of the century Atlanta, pharmacist John Pemberton has invented a dynamite health tonic with ...
eBay vs PayPal - Interview with Kara Swisher | 7
14 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We hope you enjoyed our series on eBay vs PayPal. Here to discuss her thoughts on the PayPal mafia a...
eBay vs PayPal - Outta the Gate | 6
09 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
PayPal is running out of time. The online payment service is hauling in new users, but its bottom li...
eBay vs PayPal - Breaking Up Is Hard To Do | 5
07 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
By late 2000, PayPal and X.com are yoked together, with X.com CEO Elon Musk leading the newly combin...
eBay vs PayPal - How Bad Is It? | 4
02 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Remember the summer of 2000? The Olympics were in full swing and PayPal was under attack. Not from e...
eBay vs PayPal - PayPal Goes Viral | 3
31 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the midst of the dot-com boom, there's also a lot of dot-com bust. PayPal desperately needed to g...
eBay vs PayPal - The E-commerce Revolution | 2
26 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As eBay gathers steam, a libertarian chess champion and a programmer who fled Communist Ukraine team...
eBay vs PayPal - Going Once, Going Twice | 1
24 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
At the dawn of the dotcom era, a Silicon Valley tech geek on a personal vendetta rolls out the world...
Hearst vs Pulitzer - Interview with Gabriel Kahn | 7
28 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Joining us today is Gabriel Kahn, a professor of journalism at the University of Southern California...
Hearst vs Pulitzer - Days of Atonement | 6
26 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
By 1900, the days of yellow journalism were already fading, and both William Hearst and Joseph Pulit...
Hearst vs Pulitzer - Newsies | 5
21 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A close up look at a crisis of their own making. One that nearly cost Hearst and Pulitzer their grip...
Hearst vs Pulitzer - War Drums | 4
19 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when there’s no news? You have to MAKE the news.When Hearst heard from his top report...
Hearst vs Pulitzer - The Price of News | 3
14 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In 1883, 15 years before the Headless Torso Murder, New York City's population was rapidly growing a...
Hearst vs Pulitzer - The Headless Torso, Part 2 | 2
12 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In 1897, America looked very different. Carriages rolled through the streets of New York. Mass media...
Hearst vs Pulitzer - The Headless Torso, Part 1 | 1
07 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This is the beginning of a mystery, a great business rivalry, and a look into American history. To t...
Gregor Mendel vs the World - American Innovations | 1
10 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Host David Brown interviews Steven Johnson, the host of the new podcast American Innovations.Support...
The First Computer War - Computing Gets Personal | 6
08 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
After all that IBM has been through over the decades, it would have never in a million years guessed...
The First Computer War - Betting the Store | 5
03 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s 1961. Since his father retired 5 years earlier, Thomas Watson Jr pushed to modernize IBM from...
The First Computer War - Abdication | 4
01 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 1 the UNIVAC successfully predicted that Eisenhower would win the 1952 election. In Phila...
The First Computer War - IBM versus The UNIVAC | 3
26 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What’s a 16% market share when the public thinks you have more? A potential anti-trust suit, if yo...
The First Computer War - Father, Son, and The Future | 2
24 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How do you really “get ahead” in a war? Sometimes you don’t have to do anything, you just wait...
The First Computer War - The Electronic Brain | 1
19 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With so much information at our fingertips, it’s hard to remember that we haven’t always wa...
Marvel vs DC - Interview with Jason Mewes and Reed Tucker | 7
12 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What's that? Up in the sky? It's another episode of Business Wars. Today we're talking to two super ...
Marvel vs DC - The Cinematic Universe | 6
10 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
After more than 50 years of fighting for the hearts and attention spans of millions of readers, tele...
Marvel vs DC - Big Screen Heroes | 5
05 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Appearances on radio programs, television shows and thousands of comic books - all just another day ...
Marvel vs DC - Schemes, Scans, and Double Crosses | 4
03 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s 1970 and the unthinkable just happened. Jack Kirby, one of the men who made Marvel, has defec...
Marvel vs DC - Copycat | 3
29 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As Marvel’s richer storylines captivate more readers, DC just can’t keep up, or fully understand...
Marvel vs DC - The Fantastic Mr. Lee | 2
27 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve talked about several wars on this series, but here’s a first: DC and Marvel engaging with ...
Marvel vs DC - Origin Stories | 1
21 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 1960s, the Space Race was on, Chubby Checkers got everyone doin’ the twist and Superm...
Nike vs Adidas - Interview with Liz Dolan and David Meltzer | 7
20 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Today we talked to Liz Dolan, former Nike CMO, and David Meltzer, sports marketing guru and agent ab...
Nike vs Adidas - The Defectors | 6
15 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The rivalry between Nike and Adidas has been intense for decades, but always respectful. But with in...
Nike vs Adidas - Rebound | 5
13 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Nike, the late starter struck gold with its “Just Do It” campaign. Launched in 1988, the shoe gi...
Nike vs Adidas - Nike Air | 4
08 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Every new Nike employee gets a list of principles that serves as the company’s philosophy. On...
Nike vs Adidas - Walking Billboards | 3
06 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As long as there have been professional sports, there have been professional athletes, willing to ac...
Nike vs Adidas - The Starting Line | 2
01 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Rudi and Adi Dassler started the “Dassler Business” in the 1920s in their parent’s garage, rec...
Nike vs Adidas - Sneakerheads | 1
27 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In 2015, Kanye West turned his back on Nike, an all out battle in the ongoing war for sneaker suprem...
Netflix vs Blockbuster - Interview with Rich Greenfield | 8
22 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Rich Greenfield is a tech and media analyst with BTIG who’s been covering this battle in some capa...
Netflix vs Blockbuster - The Way We Watch | 7
20 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Netflix goes from being a streaming company to a movement in which consumers all over the world deci...
Netflix vs Blockbuster - Binge | 6
15 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Hollywood execs thought Netflix was crazy to give up advertising and spin off opportunities by letti...
Netflix vs Blockbuster - HBO Gets In The Ring | 5
13 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We take a step back to explore how a little company called Home Box Office went from serving B-movie...
Netflix vs Blockbuster - The Digital Divide | 4
08 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
You know that expression “content is king”? Well it turns out, sometimes it’s not. Sometimes i...
Netflix vs Blockbuster - Dirty Tricks | 3
06 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Thinking like your enemy is the best way to beat them, and during the war, Blockbuster tried every t...
Netflix vs Blockbuster - Origins | 2
06 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
After Hastings pleaded with Antioco to buy Blockbuster Online, Antioco agreed to present Hasting’s...
Netflix vs Blockbuster - Sudden Death | 1
06 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This is Episode 1 of an 8-part series on the brutal business battle between Netflix and Blockbuster,...
Introducing: Business Wars
19 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Netflix-HBO. Nike-Adidas. Business is war. Sometimes the prize is your wallet. Sometimes your attent...