This is an IHeart podcast.

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.

Yeah. or wherever you get your podcast. This is our American stories, and our next story is about a gem.

It turns out diamonds haven't always been rare stones. Since 1870, when huge diamond mines were discovered in South Africa,

soon after that discovery, the British financiers behind the South African mining effort

realized the diamond market would be saturated if they didn't do something about it.

So in 1888, they set two audacious goals.

One, monopolized diamond prices by creating Debeer's mines.

De Beers would then be able to stabilize the market by creating both the supply and the demand for diamonds worldwide.

Tom Zollner is a journalist and professor who lives in Los Angeles.

He wrote the book, The Heartless Stone, A Journey Through the World of Diamonds, Deceit and Desire.

Here's Tom with the story of that journey.

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