History's greatest
power plays —
90 seconds at a time
Your feed is full of noise that vanishes on contact. Trade 90 seconds of it for one true story of power, money and deception — told like a thriller, checked like a court case. You'll never read the news the same way.
Atahualpa's Ransom
The Eiffel Con
Jobs Returns
Capone's Ledger
Enron's Quarter
The Triumph
The PayPal Mafia
FTX Falls
The Second Sale
The Black Ships
The Money Box
Six Tons of GoldPick a rabbit hole. New cases drop every day — empires, cons, art, markets.
Watch a
case
Press play on any case. Ninety seconds later you'll know exactly how a con worked or why an empire cracked — and you'll be annoyed we cut it where we did. That's the point.
What you get
You'll actually remember it
You've watched forty clips tonight and kept none of them. Our cases end before your attention does — and stick, because they're stories, not lectures.
You can trust every frame
No AI-slop history. We check every case against filings, chronicles and court records — and when historians disagree, we tell you so on screen.
A habit that pays you back
90 seconds a day. In a month you'll carry thirty true stories your friends will make you retell at dinner.
You get harder to fool
Every case names the play — prestige laundering, ransom pricing, moats of secrecy. Once you've seen it run in 1519, you'll spot it in your next pitch meeting.
Every case
is fact-checked
before it's cut
We read the filings, the memos and the chronicles so you don't have to. The drama is real — we just cut it the way a thriller would.
See the library
The Library
The Ransom Room
A room of gold for one life. Paying proves you can pay.
The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower
Twice. The second buyer was too embarrassed to report it.
The Board That Fired Its Founder
Twelve years later, they had one option left.
The Quarter Enron Ran Out of Room
The numbers worked until someone looked.
The Ledger That Caught Capone
Murder walked. Math didn't.
The Second Sale
He came back a month later and sold it again.
The PayPal Decision
Merge with your worst enemy, or die racing them.
The Night FTX Vanished
$8 billion, gone between dinner and dawn.
The Money Box
A machine that printed hundred-dollar lies.
The Blind Doge
Ninety years old, blind — and he pointed a crusade at his rival.
Six Tons of Gold
The room filled. Pizarro started counting something else.
The Black Ships
Four ships opened an empire that had been closed for 214 years.
Friday the 13th, 1307
The king erased his debt overnight — by erasing the bank.
The Receipt
A banker reminds an emperor who bought his crown.
The Match King
He out-lent J.P. Morgan on $100M of forged bonds.
People love Vellum
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