Mark Zuckerberg: Move Fast and Get Rich
How one social media site birthed an empire. The story of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook.
- 56 mins
- 26 Mar 2024
BBC Sounds - Good Bad Billionaire - Available Episodes
Good Bad Billionaire
Simon Jack and Zing Tsjeng find out how the richest people on the planet made their billions, and then they judge them. Are they good, bad, or just another billionaire?
Episodes (30 Available)
- Richard Branson: Sky's the Limit
From The Exorcist to 400 companies, how music sent the Virgin entrepreneur to space.
- 48 mins
- 19 Mar 2024
- Jim Ratcliffe: Man U Mogul
He's spent a billion on Manchester United but how did Jim Ratcliffe become a billionaire?
- 48 mins
- 12 Mar 2024
- Bernie Ecclestone: Fast Money
How the Formula One supremo won control of a sport, and how it all came crashing down.
- 50 mins
- 05 Mar 2024
- Gina Rinehart: The Other Iron Lady
How a mining magnate amassed a $30 billion fortune to become Australia's richest person.
- 50 mins
- 27 Feb 2024
- Good Bad Billionaire Presents….Business Daily
Simon & Zing present a special billionaire-themed episode of the Business Daily Podcast.
- 18 mins
- 26 Feb 2024
- Charles Koch: Dark Money’s Slick Operator
How the oilman and his feuding family turned black gold into dark money.
- 38 mins
- 20 Feb 2024
- Taylor Swift: Swiftonomics
From public feuds to private legal battles, how a country singer became a billionaire.
- 53 mins
- 13 Feb 2024
- Warren Buffett: The Oracle of Omaha
How Warren Buffett became the richest investor ever after buying his first shares at 11.
- 54 mins
- 06 Feb 2024
- NR Narayana Murthy: India's IT Innovator
The father of India's IT boom, and the father-in-law of UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
- 53 mins
- 30 Jan 2024
- Rupert Murdoch: The Succession Prequel
How a young man turned a failing Australian newspaper into a global media empire.
- 52 mins
- 23 Jan 2024
- El Chapo: Cocaine Kingpin
The story of Mexican drug lord Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, better known as El Chapo.
- 50 mins
- 16 Jan 2024
- Jay-Z: A Business, Man
How hip-hop’s first billionaire went from dealing grams to winning Grammys.
- 52 mins
- 09 Jan 2024
- Michael Bloomberg: Market Master
Why being fired from Wall Street led to $96 billion and a failed presidential campaign.
- 49 mins
- 12 Dec 2023
- Patrick Soon-Shiong: Cures for Cash
Why was a brilliant surgeon and biotech billionaire sued by his brother... and Cher?
- 39 mins
- 05 Dec 2023
- Bill Gates: Software Hardman
The story of the Microsoft boss who was the richest person in the world for a decade.
- 60 mins
- 28 Nov 2023
- Sam Bankman-Fried with Michael Lewis
The spectacular rise and fall of the FTX crypto empire, with special guest Michael Lewis.
- 59 mins
- 21 Nov 2023
- Denise Coates: Ultimate Gambler
How an accountant from Stoke gambled it all to become the world's highest paid woman.
- 46 mins
- 14 Nov 2023
- Michael Jordan: Most Valuable Player
How basketball's biggest superstar became the world's first athlete billionaire.
- 52 mins
- 07 Nov 2023
- Kim Kardashian: Breaking the Internet
From leaked sex tape to business mogul, how Kim Kardashian leveraged fame for money.
- 49 mins
- 31 Oct 2023