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Publications

Bloomberg Businessweek

Business World

The Brothers Who Bought South Africa

Africa’s most important economy now appears to function for the benefit of one powerful family—the Guptas.

Matthew Campbell, Franz Wild Bloomberg Businessweek Nov 2017 25min Permalink

Business

How Two Brothers Turned Seven Lines of Code Into a $9.2 Billion Startup

Inside Stripe’s battle to upend the online payments world.

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Vance on the Longform Podcast

Ashlee Vance Bloomberg Businessweek Aug 2017 25min Permalink

Crime

The Hijacking of a $100 Million Supertanker

The mystery of the Brillante Virtuoso.

Kit Chellell, Matthew Campbell Bloomberg Businessweek Jul 2017 25min Permalink

Business World

Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Send Cash

How Western Union does business in 2017.

Drake Bennett, Lauren Etter Bloomberg Businessweek Jun 2017 20min Permalink

Business Politics

Wilbur Ross and the Era of Billionaire Rule

Trump’s Commerce pick and a government by, and for, the super-rich.

Max Abelson Bloomberg Businessweek Jan 2017 10min Permalink

Crime Food

The Disastrous $45 Million Fall of a High-End Wine Scammer

Premier Cru’s “pre-arrival” cases were deeply discounted. When too many failed to arrive, a multi-decade wine Ponzi-scheme fell apart.

Michael Steinberger Bloomberg Businessweek Aug 2016 15min Permalink

Business Crime

Walmart’s Out-of-Control Crime Problem Is Driving Police Crazy

The unintended consequences of cost cutting corporate decisions on display at a Tulsa Wal-Mart Supercenter.

Shannon Pettypiece, David Voreacos Bloomberg Businessweek Aug 2016 15min Permalink

Business Travel

The World's Smallest Ukulele

Scenes from a class conflict playing out between millionaires and billionaires on Hawaii’s Big Island.

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Previously: Robert Kolker on the Longform Podcast

Robert Kolker Bloomberg Businessweek May 2016 15min Permalink

Business World

Oil Is the Cheap Date From Hell

On the parasitic relationship between oil and the stock market.

Peter Coy, Matthew Philips Bloomberg Businessweek Feb 2016 10min Permalink

Tech

The First Person to Hack the iPhone Built a Self-Driving Car. In His Garage.

Google and Tesla are spending billions to develop driverless technology. George Hotz used an Acura.

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Ashlee Vance on the Longform Podcast

Ashlee Vance Bloomberg Businessweek Dec 2015 15min Permalink

Business

The CEO Paying Everyone $70,000 Salaries Has Something to Hide

Thirty-year-old payment processing CEO Dan Price made an audacious decision and was rewarded with viral stardom. But what were his real motivations?

Karen Weise Bloomberg Businessweek Dec 2015 15min Permalink

How an F Student Became America’s Most Prolific Inventor

Lowell Wood helped bring down the Soviet Union, has created what could be the first concussion-free football helmet, and has regular brainstorming sessions with Bill Gates. He also drives a 20-year-old Toyota with 300,000 miles on it.

Ashlee Vance Bloomberg Businessweek Oct 2015 15min Permalink

Business Crime

Was Tom Hayes Running the Biggest Financial Conspiracy in History?

A profile of jailed trader Tom Hayes, who was either behind the Libor scandal or became its fall guy.

Liam Vaughan, Gavin Finch Bloomberg Businessweek Sep 2015 35min Permalink

Crime

Man vs. Machine

A man had a gift for teaching people to beat the polygraph. Now he’s going to prison.

Drake Bennett Bloomberg Businessweek Aug 2015 20min Permalink

Business Tech World

Google’s $6 Billion Miscalculation on the EU

European antitrust regulators just won’t leave Google alone.

Brad Stone, Vernon Silver Bloomberg Businessweek Aug 2015 20min Permalink

Warren Buffett’s Family Secretly Funded a Birth Control Revolution

The anonymous donations that helped fund new IUDs.

Karen Weise Bloomberg Businessweek Jul 2015 15min Permalink

Crime Tech

The Mob's IT Department

Two successful tech geeks slip into organized crime.

Jordan Robertson, Michael Riley Bloomberg Businessweek Jul 2015 20min Permalink

Tech

What Is Code?

A 38,000-word answer.

Paul Ford Bloomberg Businessweek Jun 2015 25min Permalink

Business

The Aging of Abercrombie & Fitch

How does a company that sells youth learn to grow up?

Susan Berfield, Lindsey Rupp Bloomberg Businessweek Jan 2015 15min Permalink

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