The Empire Builders Podcast

#81: Vice Media – Heroin, Failure, Grit… and Disney????

Posted December 28, 2022 • 00:18:08

Luck favors the heroin addict that refuses to give up! Just ask Disney.

Dave Young:

Welcome to the Empire Builders Podcast, teaching...

#080: Warby Parker – Losing your glasses sucks! Replacing sucks more.

Posted December 21, 2022 • 00:22:25

Imagine these four MBAs sitting in class when their phones start blowing up with orders for eyeglasses after they lost the business idea competition...

#079: Instagram – The day Obama joined, they new it was a big deal

Posted December 14, 2022 • 00:20:15

How pivoting after an early discovery with customers led them to sell in just two years for a Billion dollars. Another story of giving the customer...

#078: AirBnB – Airbed and Breakfast dot com

Posted December 7, 2022 • 00:27:07

How do two arts graduates and their buddy with no travel experience and zero technology experience build a six-billion-dollar empire in only fourteen...

#077: Kodak – The fall of an Empire

Posted November 30, 2022 • 00:22:29

Kodak had the cash cow, so why couldn’t they successfully transition into a digital company when they invented digital photography?

Dave...