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How We Got Here with Chris Kohler

How We Got Here with Chris Kohler

By: Kohler Media
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Business history is wilder than you think.

Join finance journalist and digital storyteller, Chris Kohler, as he delves into the corporate moments that were too ridiculous to make up, but too important to ignore. The deals that collapsed empires. The decisions that accidentally built them. The scandals that still echo through every boardroom today. Tested and refined through millions of social media views, these are the stories that explain why modern business looks the way it does.

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Episodes
  • Hang on... was Tupperware a pyramid scheme?
    Jun 29 2026

    Tupperware is one of those words so common we forgot it's a brand. It's also one of the great untold business stories, with a pioneer who was deliberately erased from view.


    Did she design a pyramid scheme? Not really.

    There's more to it than that.


    This is the story of Brownie Wise... and what it costs to build something you don't own.

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    46 mins
  • Ryanair: How The Bad Guy Won
    Jun 15 2026

    A cheap flight… that ends up feeling expensive.

    This episode: how Ryanair and Michael O'Leary perfected drip pricing and made billions doing it.

    Removing olives, lukewarm off-brand soft drinks, expensive wheelchair hire… and the hardest two truths and a lie segment yet.


    0:00 Intro

    5:05 Two Truths & A Lie

    7:10 The Industry That Counts Olives

    11:00 Enter The Accountant

    16:10 The Southwest Effect

    21:55 O'Leary Takes The Controls

    28:02 Since When Is A Wheelchair A Frill?

    35:52 The Charge Sheet - And Why It Works

    41:05 The Point


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    50 mins
  • How Kodak Engineered Its Own Demise (Literally)
    Jun 1 2026

    Kodak didn’t make a mistake. The digital camera was invented in their own building but it was missing more than film. It was missing a business model.


    0:00 Intro

    3:15 Two Truths & A Lie

    4:15 The Man Who Gave Everyone A Camera

    15:40 Advertising Done To Perfection

    23:06 Welcome Steve

    35:25 The Point

    39:15 The Ending

    44:10 Two Truths & A lie



    Madmen Scene - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq3n2sJ43Hg&t=4s


    A Long Time In Finance w/ Steve Sasson - https://open.spotify.com/episode/407q6PT4umq9BVECyJsLhy

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    49 mins
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