The Profit Prophet

Uncover the hidden business strategies behind today's most surprising success stories and spectacular failures. Each episode reveals the untold decisions, timing, and market forces that made or broke companies you thought you knew.

The Profit Prophet is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 76 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts The Profit Prophet, a business show with 76 episodes published.

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  Episode #79

  The Mattress Bubble: How a Sketchy Industry Got Disrupted, Then Swallowed the Disruptor Whole

  Sep 15, 202628 min

  Casper went to war with a $15 billion mattress industry built on fake markups, predatory salespeople, and showrooms designed to confuse you into overpaying — and for a minute, it looked like they were winning. Then the old industry pulled a move straight out of the SCI playbook: they didn't fight the disruptor, they cloned it, flooded the market, and watched Casper bleed out under its own hype. This is the story of what happens when a venture-capital fever dream crashes into an industry that's been running the same scam since 1865. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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  Episode #78

  The Funeral Industrial Complex: How Service Corporation International Turned Grief Into a Subscription Model and Buried Every Competitor Who Tried to Stop Them

  Sep 8, 202634 min

  When your customers are in the worst moment of their lives and have 48 hours to make a $12,000 decision, that's not a market — that's a trap. We go inside Service Corporation International, the quiet monopoly that spent 50 years buying up mom-and-pop funeral homes across America, rebranding them with local names, and charging corporate prices while grieving families never knew they were dealing with a Fortune 500 company. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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  Episode #77

  The Chicken Cartel: How Four Companies Convinced America They Were Competing While Fixing Prices, Sharing Secrets, and Carving Up the Most-Consumed Meat in the Country

  Sep 1, 202634 min

  Last week we exposed how mattress companies weaponized confusion to pick your pocket. This week, we go to the dinner table — specifically to an industry where four corporations control 54% of the U.S. chicken supply, a whistleblower algorithm accidentally exposed a decade of coordinated price manipulation, and the victims weren't just consumers but the farmers who raised the birds and never saw a dime of the markup. The broiler chicken industry isn't just a food story — it's a masterclass in how to run an oligopoly in plain sight. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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  Episode #76

  The Mattress Mafia: How a Sleepy Industry Manufactured a Fake Crisis, Built an Impenetrable Retail Cartel, and Then Watched a Single Website Burn It All Down

  Aug 25, 202637 min

  The American mattress industry spent decades engineering one of the most sophisticated consumer confusion rackets in retail history — identical beds sold under hundreds of different names, prices that meant nothing, and a dealership model that made comparison shopping almost legally impossible. Then a 30-year-old with a spreadsheet and a direct-to-consumer website didn't just disrupt the industry — he exposed exactly how badly it had been lying to you, and the cartel's response was uglier than you'd expect. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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  Episode #75

  The Coupon Cult: How Extreme Couponing Broke Grocery Economics, Funded a Shadow Economy, and Made One Woman the Most Feared Person in Retail History

  Aug 18, 202634 min

  Before we watched startups burn through VC money trying to disrupt retail, the retail industry was already being quietly bled dry from the inside — by housewives with binders. This week, we trace how manufacturer coupons evolved from a Depression-era goodwill gesture into a multi-billion-dollar fraud ecosystem, how TLC's 'Extreme Couponing' accidentally taught millions of people to game a system that was never designed to be gamed, and how one Ohio woman's coupon operation got so sophisticated that Procter & Gamble had to restructure its entire promotions strategy to stop her. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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