Jacob Goldstein
Jacob Goldstein spent more than a decade as co-host of the Planet Money podcast. He's also the author of the book Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing, which the New…
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Young Warren Buffett became rich in anonymity – but in the 1980s he became a global star. During the excesses of 1980s Wall Street the middle-aged investor was reluctantly drawn into the spotlight to save troubled companies. And then came tech – which suited Buffett’s style even less.
Warren Buffett couldn’t even use a computer – but everyone was telling him to buy tech stocks. How did Buffett navigate the dot com bubble when he’d never surfed the internet? And what will his company Berkshire Hathaway do in the era of AI as Buffett steps away?
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Robert Smith
Robert Smith, co-host of the Business History podcast, is a Professor of Journalism at Columbia University and contributing host of NPR's Planet Money where he tells stories about how the…
