2026-08-12
40 分钟第 140 季 第 1 集
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A listener note, Business Wars uses dramatizations based on true events.
Some elements, including dialogue, are dramatized, but every episode is rooted in extensive research.
2008, and at Roosevelt's Pub in Philadelphia,
four college students are huddled in a booth clutching beers, engrossed in their conversation.
This bar is a favorite among students at the Horton School.
It's packed with people they know.
But tonight, the friends are ignoring the crowd because they're
fired up about an idea that's grabbed their imaginations.
One of the students is David Gilboa, and his eyes are wide with excitement.
So are we actually going to do this?
This isn't all just talk, right?
Because I think we're on to something here.
The student sitting next to him, Neil Blumenthal, nods.
I think we really should do it.
I mean, really, no stores, no middlemen, just a website.
The idea these four students have been talking about all day is whether to start an online eyewear company.
It began when they wondered why glasses are so expensive when they don't cost much to make.
So they looked into it and discovered something shocking.