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bsnsBlooper: The Video Game Atari Buried Alive
Season 1 Episode 26051
Executives were confident the holiday release would be a guaranteed hit.
The company had the brand power, the licensing deal, and a market that seemed…
4 months, 1 week ago
Feb 19, 1942: The Market Was Told to Move and Was Never the Same
Season 1 Episode 26050
The damage wasn’t the shutdown, it was the removal.
On February 19, 1942, Executive Order 9066, signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, authorized exclusion …
4 months, 1 week ago
Feb 18, 1930: A Cow Named Elm Farm Ollie That Sold Air Travel
Season 1 Episode 26049
Trust came before tickets.
On February 18, 1930, a dairy cow named Elm Farm Ollie flew aboard an airplane in a carefully staged demonstration designed…
4 months, 1 week ago
Feb 17, 1600: The Price of Unauthorized Ideas
Season 1 Episode 26048
Ideas were valuable, but only if someone in power allowed them to exist.
On February 17, 1600, the execution of Giordano Bruno marked the enforcement …
4 months, 1 week ago
Feb 16, 2021: The Day the Texas Power Market Had Enough
Season 1 Episode 26047
Efficiency worked right up until it didn’t.
On February 16, 2021, Texas’s power grid failure revealed how a market optimized for price and efficiency …
4 months, 1 week ago
The Pepsi That Exploded the Philippines
Season 1 Episode 26044
At the time, the idea sounded harmless. Maybe even clever.
In the early 1990s, Pepsi rolled out a bottle-cap promotion in the Philippines meant to rew…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Feb 12, 1541: Mars Logic, 16th-Century Edition
Season 1 Episode 26043
The debate wasn’t about survival, it was about return (and we mean financial return.)
On February 12, 1541, Santiago was founded as an economic node d…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Feb 11, 1936: The Day Power Became an Operating Advantage
Season 1 Episode 26042
The real shift wasn’t construction, it was reliability.
On February 11, 1936, electricity from Hoover Dam began flowing into regional utility systems …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Feb 10, 2026: The Game That Changed How Businesses Trusted Data
Season 1 Episode 26041
Human intuition wasn’t wrong, it just wasn’t enough anymore.
On February 10, 1996, IBM’s Deep Blue won a single game against world chess champion Garr…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Feb 09, 2026: When Accusations Became a Corporate Risk
Season 1 Episode 26040
Risk stopped waiting for proof and started responding to perception.
On February 9, 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy’s public claims of Communist infiltr…
4 months, 2 weeks ago