#125 The Super Rich (Part 1)

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🗓️ 13 July 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Let’s have a look at some of the most interesting self-made millionaires that history has to offer! This week we have Sarah Breedlove and her lucrative beauty revolution, Richard Crawshay’s Welsh ironmongery bonanza and, more recently, let’s discuss Apple’s main man Steve Jobs.

Elsewhere, haircuts come and go - from center parting curtains to the mullet - but the medieval monk circular-shaved-bald-spot-at-the-back refuses to come back. Plus, what era of your life would you choose from for your ghost form? If you’ve got anything on this or anything else, you know what to do: [email protected]

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1:05.3	This episode is on self-made millionaires, and this is a podcast where we discuss important historical aspects such as
1:12.6	this one. Haircut innovation. We've just been talking about it before we started to recording
1:17.3	this episode. Elle's changed his hair a few times. Tom's hair can look terrible almost overnight
1:22.1	sometimes. Yeah, it flips literally in a 24 hour period. It'll look. And then 24 hours later, it's an absolute horror show.
1:28.7	I'm exactly the same.
1:30.0	I would say, even quicker, actually.
1:32.2	I think you can measure mine in minutes.
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