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PODCAST CURATOR’S NAME: Bryce Webster
WHY THIS THEME?: For those who love to nerd-out over business case studies, here are five awesome podcasts involving business stories. They include a quirky grocery store that wins by doing things differently, an innovative apparel product that disrupted a sleepy industry, and a lesson on scaling a business by doing things that don’t scale. Bryce decided to supplement his actual MBA with a podcast MBA. Here are some of his favorites.
MONDAY: Freakonomics – Should America Be Run by… Trader Joe’s? – 47 minutes
On being quirky and developing a cult-like customer following in the process…
TUESDAY: How I Built This –Spanx: Sara Blakely – 31 minutes
On pursuing a new idea to disrupt an old industry…
WEDNESDAY: Master’s of Scale with Reid Hoffman – Airbnb’s Brian Chesky in Handcrafted – 30 minutes
On how to scale a business by doing things that don’t scale…
THURSDAY: Business Schooled – Raising a Unicorn – 17 minutes
On why it pays to play the long game…
FRIDAY: Business Wars – Netflix Vs Blockbuster Revisited – Sudden Death –29 minutes
Some “pod-tainment” for the weekend: On Netflix vs. Blockbuster, back when it was actually a fair fight…
CROWDSOURCING QUESTION: What’s your favorite podcast from this list?
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