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The Chinese disruption playbook has been incredible to observe in the automotive industry. And if Japan isn't careful, the same thing is going to happen in matcha. Dominique Olivier shows how green powder has become a red ocean of competition.

The Starbucks disaster in South Korea cost a CEO his job, a brand its market, and thousands of customers their loyalty. The strangest part isn't that somebody made the mistake; it's that so many people didn't catch it before it went public. Dominique Olivier walks us through several corporate marketing catastrophes that should never have happened.

Each July, a little valley on the southern tip of Africa dresses up in tricolour to commemorate a French prison riot that it has no direct connection to. Dominique Olivier explains how a day that started with gunpowder and ended with a beheading became an excuse to drink excellent wine in Franschhoek.

A slashed tent, frozen footprints, and injuries with no visible cause. The Dyatlov Pass case has everything a good mystery needs, except a conclusion. From Yetis to avalanches, the theories to explain the tragic death of a group of hikers have been running wild for decades now.

Elvis, Lady Gaga and a nature-loving drag queen have all found themselves on the wrong end of a trademark fight. Some of them won, some of them lost, but only one of them got offered free ice-cream as compensation. Dominique Olivier brings us the more entertaining side of the law.

In 1993, one man’s technological breakthrough made an entire craft obsolete overnight. The people who survived it had one thing in common. As AI threatens everything we know about our careers, it's worth knowing what that was. Dominique Olivier tells the story of CGI disruption to the movie industry.

Some mysteries survive not because they're clever, but because the truth is so simple that nobody wants to believe it. We want the answer to be breathtaking and impossible to guess, yet sometimes it's staring us right in the face. Dominique Olivier tells the story of the Mechanical Turk.

Thomas Edison wanted to own American film. Instead, through essentially operating a cartel, he drove it 5,000 kilometres west and gave the world Hollywood. Dominique Olivier tells the wild story that few people know about the inventor of the light bulb.