Corporate Gossip
Business news for gossip lovers. From boardroom shakeups to c-suite scandals, the Corporate gossip podcast brings you all the Wall Street tea. CPA scorned Becca Platsky and OOO Reply Guy Robby Slowik are your hosts.
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You Can See Everything and We Saw Everything (SPOILERS!)
What was the motivation for Billy to [REDACTED]? Why did we kinda want Nathan and Liz to [REDACTED]? Is [Redacted] delusional about [Redacted]?? We grapple with all of these questions and more on today's episode about Nathan Fielder's documentary, You Can See Everything.
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The Social Breakdown (Bonus)
Coming up this week on the Patreon Robby and I discuss Aaron Sorkin's Stinker, the Social Reckoning. It deviated so much from the source material that I was motived to re-edit our Facebook episodes into this supercut that sets the record straight on the two worst people on earth: Sheryl Sandberg (3:00) and Mark Zuckerberg (1:00:00)!
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Sports Gambling: The Hole Truth
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Becca and Robby extract themselves from deep inside the glory hole to analyze the state of sports gambling. It turns out, if you unleash high octane mobile money vacuums into everyone's pockets bad things will happen!!
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Dave Portnoy: The Tool Behind the Stool
TW: Sexual Assault
The man who dared to ask: what if sports were for boys? Dave Portnoy is an irredeemable garbage person but the corporate gossip behind Barstool Sports is objectively fascinating so into the trash pile we go!
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Flock: The Big Business of Being Big Brother
Flock is going to eliminate crime in America (if you only count the crime you can find in GTA V AND if you don't count the crime that Flock enables OR commits themselves)! Becca and Robby climb up a utility pole to peek into the sloppy drama brewing at Flock HQ. They uncover that the best way for Flock CEO Garrett Langley to reduce crime in America is to DO NOTHING AT ALL...
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Phia & Wondermind: Only Scammers in the building
DIVAS DOWN. Phoebe Gates and Selena Gomez are both being accused of fraud! Robby and Becca uncover the venture capital bippity-boppity-boopification at the center of these cases. Will either of these alleged frauds lead to jail time? Would the ghost of Andrew Carnegie understand what's going on here? Is it worse to be a nepobaby or a nepomommy? Listen to find out!
TW: Mention of suicide
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FIFA Part 2: Governing the Ungovernable
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Bonus Episode! Friend of the pod and soccer expert and comedian Alexis Guerreros from the Soccer Cooligans and CBS Morning Footy stops by for a follow up episode on the future of FIFA's giant money pit! Will the fans be able to wrestle back control of the game from Gianni Infantino's death grip?? Are corrupt people more fun to part
FIFA: The beautiful game of corruption
SEASON 8!!!
Perhaps one of our most highly requested episodes FIFA, which is equal parts The Godfather, Conclave, and Alan Cumming's Cabaret?? We meet FIFA president Gianni "Johnny" Infantino, or as Tump likes to call him “sort of the king of soccer… I guess… in a certain way.”
Infantino calls FIFA the official happiness provider to humanity and BOY IS HE HAPPY! Qatari jets, a $6m salary, and a
Solving the Male Loneliness Epidemic one Crypto Kidnapping at a Time!
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[Patreon Teaser] The Lindberg Babies (Different Lindberg, different baby)
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Meet Greg Lindberg: a billionaire insurance executive who has 12 children all with different egg donors / surrogates, who hopes to live
Heated Rivalry: Private Equity vs Human Decency
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TW: Infant death (26:00), Child Sexual Abuse (37:00)
Imagine if Gordon Bomb
Full Body Scam: The Longevity Influencers
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So you want live forever and make a TON of money doing it???? May we suggest starting a longevity company to charge rich people having a midlife crisis $50,000 to make themselves me
[Patreon Teaser] Forbes 30 under 30 and Kalder: Bull Balls and Bullsh*t
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A highly requested episode! A deep dive into the Forbes 30 under 30 and a special investigation until the latest 30 under 30 under government surveillance, Gokce Guven of Kalder. Guven just pled guilty to wire fraud and identity theft and is facing
Sloppy CEOs: Giving, getting, and breaking the business
CEOs, they're just like us (but worse??) We curated some of the messiest recent CEO cheating scandals for your enjoyment because you deserve a treat!
A Nestle marketing executive having an affair with the chief catches him in the act with another coworker, Vladimir Putin pushes NBC's adulterous CEO into the loving arms of Larry David Ellison, and the head of Johnson Controls cant seem to control
CaaStle: The Devil Rents Prada
If you're in the mood for a classic true crime beach read look no further than the CaaStle fraud! In 2024 Christine Hunsicker was a leather jacket wearing, mohawk donning, Forbes cover girl who made headlines for her clothing subscription service that boasted nearly a billion dollars in annual revenue. Investors were pumping her company full of cash on the promise of infinite hockey stick growth.
[Patreon Teaser] Heated Rivalry: Private Equity vs Human Decency
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Imagine if Gordon Bombay never had a redemption arc. That's the story of Murry Gunty, owner of Black Bear Sports, a Pri
World Liberty Financial: The Real House Sons of Fake Money
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Meet Steve Witkoff, a real estate investor and supreme Trump suck-up turned "peace guy" and his two failsons, Alex and Zach. They're in charge of World Liberty Financial, the "world's fastest growing crypto company" along with the Trump family and crypto hucksters Zak Folkman and Chase Hero. The WLF team might feel invincible, but this week one disgruntled investor fil
[Patreon Exclusive] Musk V. Altman: Between a Grok and a hard place
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Tragic, the most annoying men on earth are fighting in federal court over "perfidy and deceit of Shakespearean proportions"!!!
Robby and Becca crack open
Live Nation Ticketmaster: Swift Justice for bad Beyhavior
This is the potential breakup song of Ticketmaster & Live Nation: a toxic relationship that, according to one lawyer, "essentially defrauds everyone involved." Becca and Robby bring you up to speed on the outcome of the company's fight in a trust-busting trial and then go all the way back to the villain origin story of this Frankenstein of scams. It makes us feel better to know that the founder of
Palmer Luckey & The Gundo Bros: America Runs on Drunken Drone Nuts
"Wars would be more effective and less destructive if the people in charge were stupider and hornier" - Donald Rumsfeld
Robby and Becca swallow a fistfull of zyns and party with the teenaged Gundo Bros at the center of America's booming defense tech sector. Then, they meet the movement's spiritual leader, Palmer Luckey, whose Power Ranger fantasy company Anduril just secured a $20b contract with
Trevor Milton: Pardon My Fraud
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Trevor Milton is BACK with a brand new scam... a jet with the world's largest toilet (it's true). He's just a human Secretariat living the American Dream baby!!
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Larry Ellison's ABCs: Always Be Colonizing (PLUS a huge announcement!)
Larry Ellison has been weirdly lurking in the background for decades, but then he turned 80 and decided that being the second richest man in the world wasn't enough, he also needed attention! Becca and Robby psychoanalyze baby Larry, visit his failed NOBU lettuce farm in Hawaii, and fall into the family's shiny new money pit. We think this could have all been avoided if Larry never discovered samu
Amway & The DeVos Family: Working Overtime at the Stupid Factory
Stop your protesting! Stop your organizing! The only thing we need is 🤑 MANIFESTATION 💸
It's time to talk about the Pyramidschemification of America. This episode has so many fun characters: 17th century Puritans, Tammy Faye Baker, Amanda Frances, an MLM hun on a regional jet somewhere over Sandusky, Ohio, and Elizabeth Holmes???
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Life, Liberty, Polymarket & Kalshi
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We're willing to bet that there's a 92% chance that Prediction Markets are a pyramid scheme!
Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are EVERYWHERE. Are the the future of democracy powered by collective wisdom? OR just another product of the 30 under 30 grift factory?
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Palantir, Alex Karp & The Right Wing History of Silicon Valley: Standing on J*zzness
Palantir - a new custom hellscape or same sh*t different toilet? Has Silicon Valley gone completely red-pilled or was technofacism in the valley's DNA all along? Adam and Becca trace the cookie crumbs from a pioneering mid-century nobel prize winning white supremacist to the post-9/11 origins of Palantir and ultimately meet CEO Alex Karp. Lately, he's been hitting the eject button on his own brain
Ghosts of Strike-mas Past and Larry Ellison Lore (Full Bonus Episode!)
We'll be back with season 7 on February 13th! This Patreon episode is free for all (no paywall) in solidarity with the National Strike on January 31st. If you like what you hear, please consider joining us on Patreon.
It seems that for every person energized to activism this year, there's another three ready to shit on their efforts (it's not organized enough! it's not widespread enough! You'll n
Zappos / Tony Hsieh: The Dark Side of Happiness
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Trigger warning: suicide, drug use, overdose
Tony Hsieh had a life other entrepreneurs dreamed of. He was the wealthy CE
Outdoor Voices: Ty Haney's Groundhog Day (UNLOCKED!)
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Ty Haney is back at Outdoor voices, the cult athleisure brand she founded. Can she successfully suck us all into her time machine back to 2014? Or will this company's death rattle be loud enough to convince the brand's priva
Victoria's Secret: Sex pests all the way down
The demon living inside Les Wexner's head brings us into the Victoria's Secret gremlin lair! Adam and Becca go back to the early 2000s to tell the story of the rise and fall of this retail behemoth and the corporate crooks who drove it into the ground.
CW: Sexual Assault, Suicide
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[Patreon Exclusive] Scams in the Manosphere part 2: Tai Lopez's Ponzi Scheme
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On a chilly October night, I like to cuddle up with a good ponzi scheme. It's my comfort fraud
Activision Blizzard's Final Boss
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CW: Suicide, Sexual Assault
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No game developer would even think to create a dungeon troll as sinister as Bobby Kotick. Bobby's life is a video game where gobbling up cash is the mission and when it comes to retribution there is no side quest too small!
When the WSJ drops a bombshell report ab
[Patreon Exclusive] Starbucks: Reverse Engineered Vibes (PLUS Charlie Javice Sentencing)
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Brian Niccol TRIES HIS HARDEST to get us to like Starbucks again as he tries to escape the living ghost of Howard Shultz.
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Johnson & Johnson: Is the ethical company in the room with us?
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It's the quintessential American company - gaslighting the public, twisting regulators by the balls, and killing consumers in the name of shareholder value! This story is a smorgasbord of deviance - lies, fraud, corruption, cults, and a very sweaty CEO. So put on your lab coats and take out your popcorn as we dive into the pharmaceutic
[Patreon Exclusive] JP Morgan's Big Time Oopsie (It's about Jeffery Epstein)
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TW: Sexual Assault
Wallstreets skankiest trash goblin, Jamie Dimon, has had the worst week
AOL: Dotcom Dummies
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What ever happened to AOL?! We go all the way back to 1999 (home video included) and meet Steve Case, the CEO of, at the time, the largest technology company in America. High on his own supply, he wrangles Time Warner CEO Jerry Levin into a business noogie and manages to destroy a third of a TRILLION DOLLARS in shareholder value almost instantly.
TW: murder
Sam Altman & Open AI Part 2: King D*ck of Liar Mountain
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We're back with part two of our series on Open AI (we're done after this one for a while). Everyone's making everything up all the time and no one has any idea what will happen in the future. In this episode, we cover the wild claims made about AI and AGI and how those predictions are being used to justify environmental destruction and human exploitation. Also
OpenAI & Sam Altman's Sad Sack Band of Goons
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CW: Child Sexual Assault
Meet Sam Altman, one of the most powerful men in tech (also maybe evil Pete Buttigieg??) and his posse of boy pests. We take you deep into the bunkers of Silicon Valley to Sam's inner circle to figure out how he became so rotted. Was it insecurity? Napoleon syndrome? OR SCURVY INDUCED PSYCHOSIS ???
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Match.com / Tinder: Boy Boss Amateur Hour
Why is it that no one wants to see a hot guy succeed?!!!?
This is the story of the three best friends, lead by Bell Air Boy Boss Sean Rad. They created Tinder and became the coolest millennials in LA, hosting parties with Jason Derulo and Kristen Doute and preparing their bank accounts for an influx of cash after being acquired by Match.com. But it's hard to read the fine print on a legal documen
EMERGENCY EPISODE! The Astronomer CEO scandal and other messy executives
The CEO of tech company Astronomer was caught at a Coldplay concert canoodling with the head of HR in a video that has since gone mega-viral. And SUDDENLY everyone is interested in what I thought was a niche topic - CEOs behaving badly!!
In this emergency episode, I review the latest in the Astronomer scandal and recap my favorite executive cheating scandals that we've covered on the podcast.
State of the show: Summer break, Adam's brilliant idea, good news for birds, MBAs, Amphetamines and more!
Checking in before our OFFICIAL Corporate Gossip Summer Research Break! We'll be back in July with regular episodes.
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This Brain Had a Mouth: Lucy Gwin and the Voice of Disability Nation
Audubon chapter rejects offer from The Hartford to reinstate coverage
BTW - we forgot to mention, but after The Hartford said they'd reinst
Facebook Part 2: Mark Zuckerberg & The Curse Of The Baby Bangs
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We wrap up this absolute UNIT of a two part episode by examining the Facebook story by stepping into our proverbial blue sequined rompers and seeing the world behind Mark Zuckberg's baby bangs. BUCKLE UP as Becca and Adam try to figure out - did the accumulation of unchecked power and extraordinary wealth over 20 years take ice
Facebook Part 1: Sheryl Sandberg & The Curse of the BOB
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If Sheryl Sandberg & Mark Zuckerberg never encountered one another at a Christmas party in Atherton in 2007 would the world have been a better place? Find out as we go ALLL the way back and trace the story of Sheryl Sandberg's Dr. Frankenstein and her Mark Zuckerberg monster.
Was there sexual tension between the two of them (no
Bonus! Charlie Javice vs. PeePaw: The Final Chapter
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The jury is now deliberating! What do you think? Guilty or Not Guilty?
At the closin
Etsy: Hipster Bambi vs. VC Villains
In 2007, the mecca of hipster paradise was the Etsy headquarters in Brooklyn. Etsy epitomized elder-millennial quirk with a sprinkle of digital delusion, and no one personified the vibes quite like their CEO and founder, Rob Kalin.
But while Kalin and his friends were building a crafters utopia, a ruthless venture capitalist had another plan for the company: destroy it from the inside out and ge
Charlie Javice & The Frank Fraud: Barely Legal
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Charlie Javice is another Forbes 30-under-30 uber-genius-startup-founder (see: SBF, Elizabeth Holmes, or Carlos Watson) who spent about 18 months in the warm center of the venture capital fake-it-till-you-make-it circle jerk before the sisal rug gets pulled out from under her. Once she was exposed as a total phony, every investor immediately covered thei
eBay: Dorkfellas
This is an episode for our true crime lovers! we're talking about a 2019 GANG STALKING SCANDAL that involves the executives at a fortune 500 company criminally stalking a sweet old couple. What made these executives so mad? The chief executives at Ebay so deeply butthurt about a comment the couple made on their niche ecommerce blog that they crashed-out into a goodfellas-esque, rage fueled paranoi
JUUL: Puff Daddies
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PLUS good news about a health care strike in Oregon!
We emerge from the vapor haze of a high school bathroom (how are these kids blowing PERFECT smoke rings??) to tell the tale of two Stanford grads who did what every single-celled-business-ameoba-boy dreamed of doing but was too scared to actually commit to doing - MAKE SMOKING COOL AGAIN!! They undid
23&Me (&Anne&Sergey&Elon) + State of the pod
We're BACK and starting off with an absolute banger! Sit back and enjoy the messy escapades of a bunch of horned up teenagers trapped in adult bodies: 23&Me Founder Anne Wojcicki, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, and A Bald Eagle's worst nightmare, Elon Musk. With cameos from RFK Jr (POST Brain Worm) and the corporate scandal Forrest Gump, Diane von Furstenberg, this episode is the WHOSE WHO of Sili
S4 Finale! Bob's Red Mill: Porridge Daddy & Listener Questions
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Becca and Adam talk about the Giggly Grain Grandpa: Bob Moore of Bob's Red Mill. But don't toss your oats just yet, this is a good episode. We'll teach you how to have a Bob Moore Summer (Perfecting your porridge, socializing the means of production, hyperfixating on hobbies, and being jolly) and restore your faith in CEOs.
Then we answer listener questions (37
American Apparel & the Millennial Cult of Dov Charney
Put on your flower crowns and don your skinniest jeans and join us at the center of the Millennial universe: Coachella 2007!
Adam & Becca meet the personification of the turn of the century hipster entrepreneur, Dov Charney. Sitting atop a pile of v-neck t-shirts ethically made in the USA, Charney was somewhat of a renegade business oddity on wall-street. But for the 20-something dreamers that c
Crazy Eddie, Fraud Mother?
NO ONE does fraud like Eddie Antar, and Crazy Eddie is the bizarre story that got Becca hooked on fraud!
Adam, Becca, and their Dad Jeff pop a few ludes and drop down the rabbit hole into a 1970's New York City punk rock fever dream. They meet a young Eddie Antar scamming tourists in a seedy Time Square clip joint and follow his journey to become the eccentric millionaire founder of Crazy Eddie
Intuit & Turbo Tax: Girlboss, Gaslight, Gatekeep
Why does doing taxes suck so much? Because Capitalism!
Over the past 20 years, the lovable dweebs at the IRS have been on a quest to make filing personal taxes free and easy. They say America should be like other countries, where the government sends you a pre-filled tax return and all you have to do is sign-off. Seems like a no-brainer, right? Like what kind of deranged psychopath wouldn't want
BONUS: Interview with Winning Fixes Everything author Evan Drellich
ANOTHER BONUS EPISODE! Becca & Adam talk to Evan Drellich, the author of Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess
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Astros: McKinsey Strikes Out
America's pastimes: Baseball and Fraud!
What happens when a bunch of fleece-vested jabronis take over a Major League Baseball team? Becca and Adam hop the fence at the stadium formerly known as Enron field and bring you the tea from the front-office of the Houston Astros.
Two years after the Astros won the World Series, the Athletic dropped a bombshell: the team had cheated. The public fallo
CBS & Messy Les Moonves
If you thought Sumner Redstone was a degenerate, just WAIT until you meet his pervy protege, Les Moonves!
CBS CEO Les Moonves, aka "Mr. TV" is one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. He transformed CBS from a sleepy granny network into a ratings powerhouse with shows like Survivor, Big Brother, Criminal Minds, and The Big Bang Theory. The business part of this story is one Cheezy Blaster away
Paramount / Viacom: Sumner House of Horrors
The Paramount / Viacom story is just like Bravo's Summer House, but SCARIER!
Our main character, Paramount CEO Sumner Redstone, is a horny teenager trapped in the body of a crusty old billionaire. At 92, despite being barely conscious, he was still chairman of TWO publicly traded companies.This real life Weekend at Bernie's scheme was made possible by a group of executive-level lowlifes who took
Ain't no party like an Insys party
Insys was the startup unicorn of the opioid crisis, and boy did they know how to party.
Becca & Adam meet Insys CEO John Kapoor and his rowdy band of crooked pharmaceutical reps as they slither their way through doctors offices across the country, pushing their marquee product: Fentanyl! The shady sales reps unleashed the powerful opioid on unsuspecting patients and bribed their doctors to incre
BONUS: Interview with Ringmaster author Josie Riesman
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Becca and Adam talk with the author of Ringmaster, Josie Riesman
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Josie's article mentioned in the interview: Wrestling turned me cis, then it turned me trans
WWE & Vince McMahon: Worm with a Mustache
Welcome back brother!! Season 4 is here and ready to SMACKDOWN! WWE style.
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We've seen this story before - a deeply traumatized child inherits their father's business and fills the void left by the adults that failed them with, what else… MONEY!!!! Rather than spend time examining his emotional shortcomings, Vince McMahon creates an alter ego, Mr. McMahon, to
Season 3 Finale & Chobani's Anti-CEO
It's the Season 3 Finale! We answer listener questions and meet the Yogurt King of New York: Chobani's founder, Hamdi Ulkaya. From nomadic Turkish farmer to millionaire milk mogul, Ulkaya became known as the Anti-CEO, prioritizing people over profit and creating one of the fastest growing food companies in America.
Correction: We said the Chobani Idaho factory was in Idaho falls. It is actually
Nissan & Carlos Ghosn: D*ck in a Box
In 2017 Carlos Ghosn was on top of the world, he was a Japanese national hero, renowned for bringing Nissan back to life from the brink of failure. His face was on the cover of magazines, his story was depicted in Manga, he even carried the torch at the Olympics in his home country of Brazil. His sudden arrest in 2018 for financial crimes was an unexpected twist in his story that made him the cent
Sam Bankman-Fried & FTX: Fraud on top of sh*t mountain
Becca is joined by Corporate Gossip startup correspondent Aaron Cohn to dip our tube-socked toes into the FTX trial. We meet Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), a rumpled 28-year-old-grown-adult-boy-genius who built a $40 billion crypto empire in less than three years. But his meteoric rise to crypto kingpin was followed quickly by his fall to the bottom of shit-coin mountain. And now, SBF is facing up to 11
PG&E: Go girl give us nothing!
A very haunted episode of the Corporate Gossip Podcast! Becca and adam talk about the House of Villains that is Pacific Gas and Electric. The collection of CEOs that have lead the utility company over the past two decades are are more dubious than Omarosa and more dimwitted than Jax Taylor. On the upside, this episode should cure even the most chronic cases of imposter syndrome.
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McKinsey: This is why we can't have nice things
It's hard to talk about corporate gossip without talking about McKinsey. They're everywhere! They advise the biggest companies in every industry in practically every company in America (90% of the Fortune 100 companies use Mckinsey). From Las Vegas Casinos to the Vatican, McKinsey consultants, armed with their Thinkbooks and Tumi rollerbags, dispense their advice on maximizing the bottom line unde
Koch: Toxic Kings (Part 2)
This is part two of a two part episode.
This week, Billy Koch turns into a corporate vigilante, as he takes the Department of Justice and the FBI on a private tour of the grounds where all the Koch corporate secrets are buried. We then tell the story of courtroom fight as dramatic as a Beverly Hills housewives reunion, with siblings rehashing decades-old conflicts and clawing at their share of b
Koch: Toxic Kings (Part 1)
The only thing more toxic than the emissions spewing from the smokestacks at Koch industries are the relationships between the four adult heirs to the family fortune. This story has EVERYTHING: court battles, private investigators, homosexual blackmail, ANNA NICOLE SMITH, sibling rivalry, and libertarian summer camp! Join Becca and Adam as they wade into the stinky, polluted waters of the Koch fam
David Zaslav's Flop Era
David Zaslav is having the worst summer ever. He was heckled by thousands of graduates during his Boston University commencement address, publically shamed for holding a hunger games style gala in france, and had to fire his best friend! Oh and to top it all off, all of the workers he extracts his wealth from are on strike. Why doesn't anyone want to work anymore!!
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Ted Turner: Captain Outrageous
Content warning: this episode references child abuse and suicide
Ted Turner has more BDE in his pencil mustache than Zuck and Musk combined. In the span of 5 years he captained a champion sailing yacht through the deadly celtic sea, pulled out an underdog win in the America's cup, bought two professional sports teams, and created the first ever 24-hour news network: CNN. His life is what LinkedIn
The Murdochs: Schmucksession
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It's like Jaws if everyone in Jaws worked for Jaws! It's the true story of Rupert Murdoch's main hustle (News Corp) and his side hustle (emotionally and financially manipulating his children). We trace Rupert's (aka RuMu) rise from under the thumb of his father, the original Murdoch Megalomaniac, to become an Australian media mogul. Then, he journeys to the UK and the US, leaving
Season 2 Finale & Costco: Kings of Kirkland
SEASON 2 FINALE!!
Thanks for your support this season, we'll be back with Season 3 later this summer!!
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Becca and Adam flew close to the sun last week and decided to end the season on a high note. We answer some listener questions and crown our 2023 Corporate Cutie before getting into some feel-good Corporate Gossip.
The Costco story (18:45) is str
Enron Rules
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This is a true Corporate Gossip Exclusive: The ONLY comparative exploration of Enron and Vanderpump Rules.
On a summer day in 2012 in a restaurant garden in Weho, waitress Schena Shay confronts Housewife Brandi Glanville about the rumors of infidelity surrounding Brandi's husband, Eddie Cibrian. Narratively, this scene breaks the seam between the
Jack Welch & GE: Daddy Issues
A SUPERSIZED EPISODE!! Two pods in one!!!
Jack Welch is our collective Corporate Villain origin story. Potentially the most famous American CEO, Welch, like so many of the leaders we cover on this pod, possesses a dangerous combination of ruthlessness and incompetency. Adam and Becca trace his meteoric rise and salacious downfall before passing the reins of turd mountain (GE) to a series of doom
Subway: Never go against the fahmily
If Theresa Giudice opened a mediocre fast casual sandwich shop it would look like Subway restaurants. Founded in part by a 17 year old from the Bronx named Fred Deluca, Subway would become the world's largest fast-food chain. But while Deluca's family was raking in that sweet meatball money, their franchisees were in honey ham hell. Once the sandwich king, Subway now faces serious lawsuits and FTC
Fixing Capitalism in 60 Minutes or Less or Your Money Back with Nathan Macintosh
This episode is Not Safe For Work / Your Harvard MBA class
Professional Canadian... sorry, Professional COMEDIAN, Nathan Macintosh joins Becca to fix capitalism. It's so easy it literally took us less than an hour guys. We discuss a few interesting proposals to address capitalism's systemic problems, AND plan the first EVER Corporate Gossip Cruise / Davos for the rest of us.
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Are you there Herb? It's me, Southwest
Join Becca and Adam on a journey that starts in in a smoky Texas hotel lobby in 1967. We'll pass trough a decomposing sportatorium off the Dallas freeway in 1992 and end at a contentious company sponsored JoJo concert in 2022. Once a shining star in the skies over the Texas Plains, Southwest experienced a slow and then sudden descent after the departure of it's distinctive founder. Executive would
SVB: Silly Con Valley Boss Bois
It's a bank run, dummies! The SVB collapse is true corporate gossip catnip, and we couldn't resist bringing you this ~very special~ episode about the biggest corporate shitshow of the year (so far). Aaron Cohn, business professor and scorned ex-lover of venture capital, joins Becca to recap the bank's meltdown and subsiquent VC temper tantrum. Aaron is fresh off the plane from SXSW and ready to sp
Boeing Blows It
Boeing is the quintessential american company. For decades it was the destination of choice for America's brightest minds in engineering. Pilots revered the institution, "if it aint Boeing, I'm not going," they'd often say. But by the turn of the century, Boeing's engineering supremacy was replaced with a relentless devotion to shareholder value. Passengers... you can kick rocks! Boeing execs have
Ozy Media: Corporate Catfish
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Carlos Watson has it all: an Ivy League pedigree, an electric personality, and a media empire called "Ozy." There's only one problem… Watson is a prolific bullshit artist. When he and his co-founder are caught catfishing Goldman Sachs executives, his empire begins to crumble and his throne of lies is exposed. The Ozy story is truly wild and includes
Under Armour: Business Bros
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Under Armour is what happens when a group of perpetually rowdy frat bros is at the helm of a multi-billion dollar company. Starting with a single sewing machine in his grandma's basement, Ken Plank grew the UA brand to market dominance over two decades, and then oversaw its demise over two years. This story has it all: A+ list athletes, strip club s
Disney Drama Kings (Part 2)
Hi, Hi, Hiya! The Disney Drama continues as Michael Eisner hires his Hollywood buddy, super-agent Michel Ovitz, as president of the company. 434 days later he's fired and a contentious lawsuit brings the executive suite to court where Eisner alleges that Ovitz was acting like a jerk at his Mom's funeral (seriously... you can't make this stuff up).
We then meet up with Bob Iger in 2022 as he's re
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