Thu, Mar 24, 2011
Bloomberg Game Changers profiles Craig Newmark the founder and creator of Craigslist. It looks at how a classifieds website has exploded into a global phenomena and looks at some of the troubles the company has faced including a power struggle with eBay and accusations that the website facilitates prostitution and murder.
Tue, May 17, 2011
Bloomberg Game Changers profiles Jeff Bezos the Founder and CEO of Amazon. Bezos left a job at a Wall Street firm to found the online bookseller with an initial investment from his parents. The company went public in 1997 and despite naysayers and the dot-com bust has managed to transform how America shops for consumer goods.
Feb 2011
Bloomberg Game Changers profiles Anna Wintour the editor-in-chief of Vogue Magazine. It looks at her early life and her initial forays in the magazine business at Harper's and New York Magazine. She becomes creative director of Vogue and eventually takes over as editor in a power struggle. She revamps the magazine and becomes one of the most powerful women in fashion.
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Tue, May 10, 2011
Bloomberg Game Changers profiles Virgin Group Founder and Chairman Richard Branson. It looks as his youth business ventures and the eventual development of Virgin Records. Evetually, he turns uses his profits from his record business to create Virgin Atlantic Airways. He survives a balloon accident and a dirty tricks campaign by British Airways. Later he reaches new heights with Virgin Mobile and earns himself a Knighthood.
Tue, Jun 28, 2011
Bloomberg Game Changers profiles billionaire Rupert Murdoch. He began his media empire in Australia after he inherited control of several newspapers and tabloids from his father. He soon expanded into television station ownership and eventually expanded his media holdings worldwide.
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2011
Bloomberg Game Changers profiles J.K. Rowling the author of the hugely successful Harry Potter series. It looks at her early life and her efforts to get the first Harry Potter books published. After the success of the novels, Rowling gets a film deal that takes her success to even greater heights. She becomes the world's richest author.
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2011
Bloomberg Game Changers profiles Marc Andreessen the founder of Netscape who revolutionized how people interacted with the Internet. Netscape makes a huge splash with its revolutionary browser until Microsoft notices and develops a browser of its own. Microsoft wins the browser war, but Andreessen is not finished. He remakes himself as a venture capitalist.
2011
Bloomberg Games Changers looks at Twitter and its founders Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone. It first looks at Evan Williams and the development of Blogger. Blogger survives the Dot-com bust and is eventually sold to Google. Meanwhile, Biz Stone works at a rival web-blogging service but eventually moves to Google where he meets Williams. The two eventually leave Google and found a Podcasting service, but that company fails when Apple allows users to podcast for free on iTunes. The two later meet Jack Dorsey who has the developed the basic idea of Twitter: a short simple message you can post from your phone telling your friends what is going on as it is going on. The three found the company and after some initials problems it explodes in popularity.