Episodes
Every episode of The Long Build, from premiere to production queue. Each one is a documentary essay on a single company and the founder who ran the pattern.
01
LB-001 Netflix 28 min June 15, 2026
The Five Bets That Made It Inevitable
A company that mailed DVDs made five platform bets in a row. None of them looked obvious at the time. This is how the pattern worked, and what it cost to run it.
LB-002 In production
NVIDIA
The decade nobody wanted the chips.
Jensen Huang
LB-003 Researching
Salesforce
Betting the company on a category that did not exist.
Marc Benioff
LB-004 Researching
Amazon
Why the bookstore was always a wedge.
Jeff Bezos