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Adventure should never come with a pause button.

Remember Movie Pass?

All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks?

I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet.

And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told.

Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company

he built.

Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it.

And then boom, it's everywhere.

And that was that moment.

Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

Music or wherever you get your podcast.

And we continue with our American stories.

And up next, a bit of economic history and a bit of business history.

In his pool of surprise-winning biography, The First Tycoon, the epic life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, author T.J. Stiles tells the dramatic story of Cornelius Commodore

Vanderbilt's humble birth during the presidency of George Washington to his death as one of the

richest men in American history. The Commodore helped to launch the transportation revolution, propel the gold rush,

reshape Manhattan, and invent the modern corporation.

This combative American icon, through his genius and force of will,

did more than perhaps any other single individual to create the modern American economy.

Here's T.J. Stiles with the story of Cornelius Vanderbilt.

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