Business podcasts
Hear how a coffee retailer became a café business, how refrigeration changed the movement of goods, and why common screw threads matter to manufacturing. Each episode is an AI-generated business-history discussion.
These are scripted interpretations of company and industry history, not founder interviews. Each episode has a transcript; any sources supplied with the episode appear alongside it.
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Start here · Company history · scripted discussion
Starbucks and Il Giornale: Two Ideas About Coffee
Podcast · Origin Uncovered · 4 min 38 sec · English audio
A discussion of Starbucks’s beginnings as a coffee-bean retailer, Howard Schultz’s café idea and Il Giornale’s acquisition of the Starbucks business.
Industry history · cold storage
From Ice Ships to Refrigeration
Podcast · Hidden Power Chronicles · 4 min 28 sec · English audio
A discussion of the ice trade, mechanical refrigeration and the systems that let perishable goods travel farther.
Industry history · manufacturing standards
Whitworth and the Business of Standard Screws
Podcast · Hidden Power Chronicles · 5 min 3 sec · English audio
A conversation about Joseph Whitworth’s screw threads, interchangeable parts and the role of shared standards in manufacturing.