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6 episodes
#5473: The Kindle Refund Trick and the Return Policy Arms Race
From market olives to a two-year Kindle refund scheme — where's the line between sampling and stealing?
#5441: Dollar Plumbing: Why Bessent's Iran Threat Has Teeth
One line from Treasury can ground an airline worldwide. The reason lives in New York's clearing houses, not the currency itself.
#5288: Slideware, Vaporware, and the Founders Who Never Built Anything
Builder.ai raised $450M with AI that was mostly humans. Here's how pitch decks became the product.
#2515: Digital Sovereignty and the Shekel Stablecoin
How a new shekel-backed stablecoin could reshape digital finance—and why Israel’s approach is different from CBDCs or unregulated crypto.
#1892: Trust vs. Math: The Hybrid Finance of Hawala and Crypto
How hawala networks and crypto merge to fund covert operations, and why intelligence agencies are struggling to track the money.
#382: The Wolves of Tel Aviv: Unmasking a Global Scam
Discover the dark side of the Startup Nation as Herman and Corn dive into the billion-dollar binary options industry that targeted victims worldwide.