The builders. Cinematic, factual stories of the greatest companies ever created, told through the founders who made them and the moats they built, with the investor and trader lessons inside each one. Part of the Complete Trader’s Edge wealth-creation library.
Greatest Companies · Episode 18 · Netflix ▶ Watch on YouTube🎵 Listen on Spotify Also available on Apple Podcasts · Amazon Music · iHeart Radio In the autumn of 2000, two men flew to Dallas to sell their small, money-losing…
Nike shares have fallen 78.6% from their November 2021 record high. The stock closed at $38.40 on 4 September 2026 against an intraday peak of $179.10 on 5 November 2021. Roughly $224 billion of market value has gone. On 21…
In 1990, in a converted barn outside Cambridge, England, a small group of engineers set out to design a computer chip. The legend, often repeated, is that there were about a dozen of them, working in a building that had…
Open the device you are reading this on. There is a strong chance that somewhere inside it, the memory that holds your data, the screen you are looking at, perhaps the very processor, was made by a single South Korean…
In 2015, almost nobody believed Advanced Micro Devices would survive. The company’s stock had collapsed toward two dollars a share. It carried about two billion dollars in debt. Its latest chip architecture, code-named Bulldozer, had been a flop, losing badly…
On November 8, 2024, the Dow Jones Industrial Average made a quiet change to its roster. After twenty-five years, Intel was removed from the index of America’s thirty most important companies. The firm chosen to replace it was Nvidia, whose…
In February 2004, a nineteen-year-old Harvard sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg launched a website from his dorm room to let students look one another up, and stumbled onto one of the most valuable ideas of the century. The site, then called…
It is the autumn of 1996, in an office in California where the lights are kept low to save money on electricity, and Jensen Huang is doing the math on how many weeks of payroll his company has left. Greatest…
Craigslist is one of the strangest great companies you will ever study, and one of the most instructive. By the logic of Silicon Valley, it should not exist in the form it does. It is a website that has barely…
In the year 2000, a young company was setting fire to roughly ten million dollars a month. It was paying people to sign up, ten dollars a head, and ten dollars more for every friend they referred, in a desperate,…
Every time a card taps a terminal, somewhere in the world, a few cents move. Not to the shopper, not to the shop, but to the company that owns the road the money travels on. We have already met one…
The story of the greatest manufacturer the world has ever produced does not begin with a car. It begins with a loom. In the early twentieth century, a self-taught Japanese inventor named Sakichi Toyoda built a weaving loom unlike any…
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