The 6 Best Go For Broke Podcast Episodes
1) From Sock Puppet to Flop: The story of Pets.com
What many of us remember of the dot-com era of the late 90s and 2000 were the ads, the hype. We saw a DIY sock puppet voiced by actor Michael Ian Black become the mascot for Pets.com and a pop culture...Show More
2) Netscape: The First Fleck of Gold
To examine the start of the dot-com bubble, we go back to 1995, the year technology became a part of our popular culture, just as the Internet was changing. Two key events happened that year -- Window...Show More
3) All Work, Some Play, Mad Risk
Dot-com companies attracted a lot of people interested in working in exciting new businesses with a start-up mentality. From bike messengers delivering food ordered over the Internet to warehouse work...Show More
4) Fax to the Future
Pets.com. Webvan. Kozmo.com. All these companies met their demise when the bubble burst. But their ideas live on today, in Chewy.com, Fresh Direct, Postmates, and many other start-ups. Looking at 2020...Show More
5) Lighting the Stock Market on Fire
Venture capitalists and tech entrepreneurs chasing big payouts helped inflate the dot-com bubble. But other forces brought the mania to individual investors, and tried to keep the party going, even as...Show More
6) Fear of Investing in BlackPlanet
Before MySpace and Facebook, there was BlackPlanet. BlackPlanet.com, a social media site targeted to Black users, was immediately popular when it launched in 1999. It allowed users to create their own...Show More
7) Land of the Giants: The Google Empire
In Land of the Giants: The Google Empire, Recode’s Shirin Ghaffary and Big Technology's Alex Kantrowitz explore how a company that began with idealistic goals of creative experimentation and making us...Show More
8) Introducing Go For Broke
Go For Broke is a new series about those moments in history when people get way too confident in a big idea. Our first season explores the frenzy of the original dot-com bubble, and what happened when...Show More