In this episode of ColdFusion we look at how a struggling digital animation company spun off from Lucasfilm, revolutionised how films were animated, almost put Disney's animation division out of business, brought apple co-founder Steve Jobs to the brink of bankruptcy, and barely avoided imploding. WTF Podcast Toy Story 2 Links Apple Spotify Google Podcasts
A lot of people think that Facebook ended MySpace but in reality, this isn't the case. In this podcast we'll go back to the 2000's to find out what really ended MySpace.
WeWork was supposed to be one of the biggest IPO's in history. The startup headed by a charismatic entrepreneur was at one time valued at almost $100-billion. But cracks started to appear in the company's facade as soon as it announced plans to become public. The rosy picture that CEO Adam Neumann had been painting to Wall Street looked more like a horror story as massive losses, lavish spending, and a shaky business model scared off potential investors. The IPO was shelved, the CEO was and foun...
My quick take on Apple's WWDC and the iPad in particular.
In this episode of ColdFusion, we look at six CEO's who made the worst tech predictions and suffered devestating consequences. We'll touch on business blunders like Steve Ballmer saying that the iPhone was going to be a flop and Blockbuster turning down the chance to buy Netflix for a measly $50-million.
A Wallstreet insider perpetrated the biggest Ponzi scheme in history. Bernie Madoff rocked financial institutions around the world to their very cores when it was revealed that the former head of the NASDAQ, a man who was an architect of the how many of the stock exchanges around the world operate, stole over $65-billion from his clients. How did this happen? We'll find out in this episode of ColdFusion.
Microsoft has become one of the largest and well known companies on the planet, but how did they start, what's their story and just how big are they today? In this video we'll take a look.
We take a look at Elon Musk's Neuralink and how the billionaire founder of Space-X and Tesla says the device will revolutionize the treatment of brain related illnesses and diseases. But is this new technology ethical? Will it allow humans to become cyber organisms with computers implanted into our bodies, and if that is where the technology is headed, should we be worried.
America's opioid crisis has had the biggest and most dramatic effect on a the Sackler family. No, it didn't kill anyone within the family. Instead, it made them billions. In this episode of ColdFusion we take a look at how one family's greed and lust for money caused one of the United States greatest health epidemics, killing over two-hundred thousand people, and leaving hundreds of thousands more dependent to a drug 50-times more addictive than morphine. The Slacker family's aggressive sales ta...
Facebook is dying, but why? In this episode of ColdFusion we take a look at why the social media monolith is heading in the same direction as MySpace, and how the company and its business tactics are tearing apart the social fabric of society, making people unhappy, and addicting people at an alarming rate.
Cancer as we know it may be coming to an end thanks to a cutting edge treatment. What's the key to this promising new breakthrough? Believe it or not, it's the cancer patients own immune system!
We take a look at the Dark Web in this episode of ColdFusion and find that this digital version of the Wild Wild West is home to a booming drug trade known as the Silk Road, dangerous hitmen, and a treasure trove of data containing your personal information. Find out how the American government helped create the Dark Web and why its existence is essential for American intelligence gathering and spying.
ColdFusion aims to reveal the bigger picture of our world by making complicated topics easy to understand, often through a narrative lens. Interested in the stretching of minds, ColdFusion is here to educate and inspire the thinkers in us.
