Billion Dollar Blunder

About Billion Dollar Blunder

Billion Dollar Blunder is a business-history podcast about the companies that had everything and lost it. Each episode is a cinematic deep dive into a single spectacular collapse: the fraud, the hubris, the warning nobody heeded, and the exact moment it all came apart.

Publisher

Spellbound Audio

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Jul 2026

Latest episode

5 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

40 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Aug 2026

   Washington Mutual : The Biggest Bank Failure in US History - #40

   Washington Mutual was a $300 billion savings bank crushed by subprime mortgages, seized by regulators in September 2008. It remains the largest bank failure in US history, sold to JPMorgan for $1.9 billion.

2. 

   4 Aug 2026

   Archegos : A Family Office That Vaporized $20 Billion - #39

   Archegos Capital was Bill Hwang's family office that used hidden leverage to build enormous stock positions. Its 2021 collapse erased about $20 billion in days and cost banks over $10 billion.

3. 

   3 Aug 2026

   Juicero : A $400 Machine You Could Squeeze by Hand - #38

   Juicero was a Silicon Valley startup that raised $120 million for a $400 Wi-Fi juice press. It flopped after reporters showed the pricey packs could be squeezed by hand, and it shut down in 2017.

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