How We Got Here with Chris Kohler

How Kodak Engineered Its Own Demise (Literally)

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:00:00 GMT

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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Kellogg’s: The Disturbing Reason Corn Flakes Exist

Mon, 18 May 2026 20:00:00 GMT

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

Mon, 04 May 2026 20:00:00 GMT

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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How Nazi Brothers Changed Sports Marketing Forever

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:00:00 GMT

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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Introducing.... How We Got Here

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:47:57 GMT

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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