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Business Wars

Wondery

History, Business, David Brown, Management

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

It’s the late 1960s and Kentucky Fried Chicken’s new owner takes the rapidly expanding franchise public. America’s hottest new IPO makes dozens of employees instant millionaires, but not Harland Sanders, who sold his company for cash. Now brand ambassador, Sanders regrets his decision and attempts a coup. As civil war rages at Kentucky Fried Chicken, diner owner Truett Cathy in Georgia makes a life-changing decision: to open his own restaurant chain in the brand new frontier of the American shopping mall. But while Kentucky Fried Chicken and Chick-fil-A focus on growing their fiefdoms, a young donut shop owner in New Orleans turns his attention to creating the perfect spicy fried chicken recipe, and finds inspiration for its name from an unlikely source: a movie about an aging cop called Popeye Doyle.

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0:39.9	A note to listeners.
0:41.2	This episode contains adult content and language.
0:48.4	It's 1967 in Miami, Florida.
0:52.2	More than a thousand Kentucky Fried Chicken Managers pack the City Convention Center for their
0:56.6	first annual meeting.
0:58.6	It's an exuberant crowd.
1:00.2	A year ago, the new owners took the company public and 21 employees stockholders became
1:05.8	instant millionaires.
1:07.9	But the new owner, John Brown Jr. sits at the speakers table holding his aching head in
1:13.6	his hands.
1:15.1	He's nursing a hangover.
1:17.3	Brown is 34 and a handsome playboy from one of Kentucky's most powerful political families.
1:24.4	Harlan Sanders enters the hall.
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