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- Indexed videos, last 90 days
- 16
- Latest publication
- Sep 14, 2026
- Audience
- ~330K subscribers
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 10, 2026
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The Home Depot: The best-performing stock in the S&P 500 since IPO (Audio) (opens the original)
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The Home Depot's founding story is like an Avengers movie… if the Avengers got fired, went broke, and stacked empty paint cans ten feet high to look legitimate. After being unceremoniously fired from their previous hardware chain at ages 48 and 35, Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank took the words of their New York banker Ken Langone (who had also just accidentally caused their firings) to heart: they'd just been "kicked in the ass with a golden horseshoe.” They proceeded to author the greatest comp
ESPN Funded the Disney You Love (opens the original)
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🎙 From Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire #shorts #podcast #acquired #businesshistory
How Big Was Frozen? (opens the original)
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🎙 From Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire #shorts #podcast #acquired #businesshistory
The connection between Ichiro Suzuki and Disney+ (opens the original)
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🎙 From Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire #shorts #podcast #acquired #businesshistory
Why Steve Jobs Bought Pixar (opens the original)
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🎙 From Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire #shorts #podcast #acquired #businesshistory
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Measured Sep 19, 2026
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