Episodes 20
Avg. Duration 20m
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Since Jan 2026
Latest Episode May 2026

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Eyewitness to Genius is a story-driven podcast about the people, ideas, and systems that shape our world. From technology and science to economy and society, each episode turns complex topics into clear, gripping narratives. Expect cinematic storytelling, sharp explanations, and a curious, forward-looking tone that leaves you seeing familiar things differently. Season 1: Money Machines - How Modern Finance Was Built Season 2: E1 Series - The Race For The Water Season 3: Stay Tuned!

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S2E5 S2, Ep. 5: How The Future Looks - Can E1 Become The Formula E Of The Water?

May 19, 2026 20m

What does the future of E1 actually look like? In this final episode, we bring everything together: the vision, the machine, the mission and the people. We ask whether E1 can grow from a stylish…

S2E4 S2, Ep. 4: Teams - Celebrities, Pilots, & The New Politics Of Motorsport

May 12, 2026 20m

A new sport does not become real only when the machine works. It becomes real when people begin to choose sides. In this episode, we look at the teams, the pilots and the celebrity-backed ownership…

S2E3 S2, Ep. 3: What They Stand For - Sport, Sustainability, & The Battle For Coastal Waters

May 05, 2026 21m

E1 is not only selling racing. It is also selling an idea. In this episode, we look at what the championship says it stands for: sustainability, Blue Impact, marine regeneration and the future of…

S2E2 S2, Ep. 2: How It Works - The RaceBird, The Format & The Physics Of Flight

Apr 28, 2026 20m Bonus

The boats do not just race. They rise. In this episode, we break down the machine at the heart of E1: the RaceBird. We explore electric propulsion, hydrofoils, race format, mixed-gender pilot lineups…

S2E1 S2, Ep. 1: E1 Series, How It All Began - The Dream Of Electric Racing On Water

Apr 21, 2026 25m Bonus

How do you invent a sport from scratch in a world already full of iconic racing formats? In this episode, we explore the origins of the E1 Series: the vision behind the world’s first all-electric…

S1E15 S1, E15: Capital’s New Faces - Cathie Wood, Sovereign Wealth & What’s Next

Apr 14, 2026 23m

From thematic ETFs and meme-stock era fandom to trillion-dollar sovereign wealth funds and climate-focused capital, this finale looks at the new characters and pools of money that are starting to…

S1E14 S1, E14: Fintech Disruptors - From PayPal Mafia To Stripe: Turning Code Into Cashflow

Apr 07, 2026 20m

Hackers and founders who treat payments as just another API problem, build wallets and checkout buttons, and show that entire banking functions can be rebuilt by a small team with a clean interface…

S1E13 S1, E13: Lehman Brothers & The Global Financial Crisis - When The Music Stopped

Mar 31, 2026 24m

From a 19th century cotton broker to a 21st century leverage bomb, this episode tracks how one storied firm’s collapse in 2008 froze the plumbing of global finance and forced governments to decide…

S1E12 S1, E12: Quants & Code - Renaissance, Citadel & The Age Of Algorithmic Trading

Mar 24, 2026 24m

The mathematicians and physicists who turn markets into data sets, build black-box strategies, and compress human hunches into milliseconds, from Medallion’s mysterious returns to high-frequency…

S1E11 S1, E11: Hedge Fund Titans - George Soros & Ray Dalio: The Men Who Bet On The World

Mar 17, 2026 24m

Macro funds that treat countries like stocks: Soros “breaking” the Bank of England, Dalio systematizing his principles into algorithms, and the rise of funds that profit from reading politics,…

S1E10 S1, E10: Private Markets Go Global - Blackstone, Partners Group & The Illiquidity Empire

Mar 10, 2026 24m

How alternative asset giants built fortunes in real estate, infrastructure, private credit and buyouts, convincing pension funds and sovereign wealth funds to trade liquidity for higher returns in…

S1E9 S1, E9: Barbarians & Builders - KKR & The Private Equity Playbook

Mar 03, 2026 17m

From RJR Nabisco and leveraged buyouts to operational turnarounds, this is the tale of how KKR and its peers turned loading companies with debt into both a feared and admired way of remaking…

S1E8 S1, E8: Larry Fink & BlackRock - The Rise Of The Asset Superpower

Feb 24, 2026 15m

A back-office bond analytics shop that becomes the world’s largest asset manager, with Aladdin watching over portfolios everywhere and BlackRock votes quietly shaping corporate decisions across the…

S1E7 S1, E7: John Bogle & Vanguard - The Index Revolution

Feb 17, 2026 14m

The man who told small investors to stop trying to be clever, own the whole market instead, and accidentally created the passive tsunami that would pull trillions away from stock pickers into…

S1E6 S1, E6: Sand Hill Road – The Gatekeepers of Risk Capital

Feb 10, 2026 15m

From Sequoia to Andreessen Horowitz, this episode follows the partnership model that funds risky startups, takes equity instead of interest, and quietly decides which technologies get the runway to…

S1E5 S1, E5: Warren Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway - The Patient Capitalist

Feb 03, 2026 18m

The Oracle of Omaha who buys boring businesses, hates complexity, and still ends up running one of the largest conglomerates on earth, proving that sometimes the biggest edge in finance is a very,…

S1E4 S1, E4: The Fed And The Dollar - When Central Banks Became Kingmakers

Jan 27, 2026 22m

How the Federal Reserve and its peers turned interest rates, money printing and swap lines into levers that move every market on earth, making central banking the invisible backdrop to every other…

S1E3 S1, E3: Goldman Sachs - The Firm Behind The Curtain

Jan 20, 2026 17m

From quiet partnership to IPO machine, M&A consigliere and trading powerhouse, this is the story of how Goldman became the archetype of the modern investment bank that always seems to be standing…

S1E2 S1, E2: J.P. Morgan - The Man Who Held Wall Street In His Pocket

Jan 13, 2026 14m

In an era before the Fed, Morgan personally rescues markets in crisis, forces rival tycoons into deals, and shows how one banker can act like a temporary central bank for an entire country.

S1E1 S1, E1: Rothschild - The Family That Bankrolled Empires

Jan 06, 2026 15m

From coin-changing in Frankfurt to funding wars, railways and governments, the Rothschilds turn relationship banking and information networks into power, writing the first playbook for global high…

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