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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Momofuku Ando told the world he invented instant ramen noodles in a shed in his backyard. In Japan, there’s not one, but two museums celebrating this breakthrough. Only Ando wasn’t the first person to flash-fry noodles to preserve them – but he was willing to sue any rival ramen maker.
Ando had suffered repeated business failures and even been jailed for tax fraud – but he created an origin story for his instant noodles so compelling that it helped him build a convenience food empire that sent instant ramen everywhere on earth and finally into space.
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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…
