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Travel back with us to the granddaddy fraud of them all, 2001’s then-largest bankruptcy in US history and the impetus for the famous Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
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Enron
Travel back with us to the granddaddy fraud of them all, 2001’s then-largest bankruptcy in US history and the impetus for the famous Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
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Kyle Westaway
Walmart
The incredible story of the retail “granddaddy of them all” Walmart, and its founder Sam Walton. Once you study Walmart, you realize just how deep its…
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NVIDIA III (2022 - 2023)
NVIDIA's dramatic decline and meteoric rise to become one of the world's most valuable companies unfolded over an 18-month period from 2022 to 2023.
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Google I (1996 - 2004)
The story of the single greatest business ever created: Google search.
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NVIDIA II (2006-2022)
Machines learned how to learn. And they learned it... on Nvidia.
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NVIDIA I (1993-2006)
He wears signature leather jackets. He can bench press more than you. He makes cars that drive themselves. He’s cheated death, both corporate and…
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SONY
Born in the unlikeliest of places — the terrible, wasteland-like aftermath of post WWII Japan — Sony rose to capture the imaginations (and wallets) of…
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Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version)
Not only is Taylor Swift the biggest music artist of our generation (it’s not even close!), with the re-recording of her original albums she’s in the…
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