Tech Business History
TBH explores how tech businesses got started, how they succeeded or failed and what it was like to work in them. Presenter Charles Miller is a former BBC producer who specialised in documentaries about technology and business. In TBH he continues his research, meeting key people whose stories tell us how technology found its way into our lives. In this first series, he talks to those behind the dot com boom and bust in the UK in the late 1990s.
Podcasting since 2019 • 6 episodes
Tech Business History
Latest Episodes
Sally Robinson: The dot com success story from a remote farm in Yorkshire
Sally Robinson and her husband ran their farm in Yorkshire, along with a small bed and breakfast business that Sally looked after. When Sally heard about the Internet in 1999, she realised it could provide an opportunity to further diversify th...
May 29, 2019
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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23:23
Tan Rasab: How WCities nearly conquered the world
WCities was a London startup that provided local reviews written by a global team of freelancers - a kind of precursor to TripAdvisor. Its young founder, Tan Rasab, jumped on the dot com bandwagon early, hoping that his website could make money...
May 22, 2019
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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44:36
Toby Rowland: Journalists needed crazy dot coms like us to write about
Toby Rowland was the co-founder of one of Britain's best-known dot com startups - a health site called Clickmango. He and his partner had no trouble raising £3 million, or spending it as fast as they could, at the urging of their investors, in ...
May 15, 2019
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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36:10
Eva Pascoe: Making the Internet cool in London
Eva Pascoe came to London from her native Poland to study human-computer interaction and psychology. In 1994, she founded Cyberia, possibly the world's first Internet cafe, which was described by Wired magazine as “the most fashionable cafe in ...
May 08, 2019
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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49:31
Rory Cellan-Jones: The rise and fall of dot com Britain
As a BBC journalist, Rory-Cellan Jones witnessed the brief dot com boom in the UK, followed by the bust. Among the big stories, he covered the birth of Freeserve, Lastminute, Firebox and Clickmango - many of them headed by relatively privileged...
May 01, 2019
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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25:46
