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Hosted by Lorenzo · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 22 episodes
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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 BuiltSeason 2: E1 Series - The Race For The WaterSeason 3: The Alchemy of Matter - How Chemistry Changed Our World
Lorenzo hosts Eyewitness To Genius, a science show with 22 episodes published.
The Siberian professor who dreamed a table where elements fell into place like a card trick, left deliberate gaps for the ones not yet discovered, and proved that the periodic table was not just a list – it was a predict
A quiet Italian lawyer-turned-scientist who proposed that equal volumes of gas contain equal numbers of particles, laying the path to the mole, Avogadro’s number and the idea that chemists could actually count atoms they
The tax collector with a backyard lab who burned things, captured gases and put chemistry on a scale – turning vague ideas of “phlogiston” into oxygen, conservation of mass, and the first real periodic language for eleme
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 experiment into a lasting
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 model behind E1. From
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 coastal waters. Can a sp
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 and the physics that
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 raceboat championship, t
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 pull the strings.
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 and a good developer d
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 which money machines to
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 traders living in nanosec
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, psychology and central bank
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 ever more complex struc
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 corporate America.
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 globe.
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 low-cost index funds.
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 reshape the world.
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, very long attention spa
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 episode in this season.
Cathie Wood
Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Investment Officer · ARK Investment Management
1 appearance on this show
George Soros
Open Society foundations
1 appearance on this show
Ray Dalio
Founder and Chief Investment Officer · Bridgewater Associates
1 appearance on this show
Larry Fink
Founder, Chairman, and CEO · BlackRock
1 appearance on this show
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