Global Disruptors
Global Disruptors
The story of the select band of people who have actually changed the world. This series, narrated by UK journalist Rod Liddle, tells you how Richard Branson changed airlines, how Oprah Winfrey and Reed Hastings changed television, how Bill Gates changed computing, how Elon Musk changed cars, Travis Kalanick changed taxis, and how Jeff Bezos and Jack Ma changed shopping. You’ll hear from the peo…Follow the podcast:
Bill Gates, the man behind Microsoft
PCs powered by Windows have became ubiquitouis all over the world meaning that he was been a billionaire since 1987. Through the people that know him best, you'll hear the story of how he conquered the world's workplaces from humble beginnings in 1975 when he co-founded Microsoft with his childhood…
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Phil Knight, founder of Nike
Starting out as a keen track runner at college in Oregon, USA, Knight has built his sportwear empire into one of the world's biggest and most profitable brands. He began selling Japanese sports shoes and since 1969 has revolutionised sportswear, sponsoring sporting icons such as Michael Jordan, Tig…
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Travis Kalanick, the man behind Uber
In cities all over the world, the taxi industry has been turned upside down by Uber, the US rideshare company. The app's global expansion, often deliberately taking on complacent taxi firms and city halls, was led by Travis Kalanick. But his aggresive approach meant that by 2019, he had sold all th…
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Reed Hastings, Netflix co-founder
One of the people who killed the video store. Netflix started by mailing out DVDs and is now one of the world's biggest TV streaming services. How did Hastings do it? What advantages did he have growing up? And what's he like to work with?
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Ariana Huffington creator of The Huffington Post
She upended online journalism by launching her Huffington Post news site in 2005. Born in Greece, she studied at The Uninversity of Oxford and became a well known media commentator in the 1990s in the US. In 2011, The Huffington post was aquired by AOL for $315 million.
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Jeff Bezos, the man behind Amazon.com
Jeff Bezos has revolutionised internet shopping, the book publication industry and cloud computing. He's even built a rocket to take himself and other space tourists into orbit. How did he start out? What's he like to work with? And what happened in his upbringing to make him so driven?
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Oprah Winfrey
She is so famous, she is known by only her first name. Arguably the most powerful women in television, she revolutionized the daytime chat-show format in the 1980s and 1990s and has a net worth of nearly $3 billion. How did she grow up? What's she like to worth with? And how did she conquer the wor…
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Elon Musk
He's lost more money than any other human in history, Tesla has revolutionised the car industry, SpaceX has reinvented space travel and was a founder of PayPal. To some he's 'space Karen' who ruined Twitter, to others he's a real life Tony Stark, so what makes Elon Musk tick?
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Richard Branson
How did Richard Branson change music, airlines and even space travel? You'll hear from the people who worked with him as lay in bed in a London flat as he started out in the 1960s, as well as the people who helped him take on the state based flag carrier airlines and how he nearly died in a flying …
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