—The innovations, failures and incredible achievements of some of the most successful businesses in history, from megastores like Costco and Walmart to shipping giants like FedEx and UPS, that forever changed the way Americans live.

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During WWII, a struggling automaker and Detroit's industry titan race to build a revolutionary all-purpose military vehicle, then spend decades battling to reinvent their wartime creation into America's popular type of car, the SUV.
A showman named Mark Goodson and a former nightclub singer named Merv Griffin wage a three-decade battle to reinvent the television game show, creating franchises with spinning wheels, buzzers and catchphrases that become ingrained in American culture as billion-dollar global brands.
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A husband's homemade bandage, a college dropout's breakthrough adhesive and a factory worker's wartime fix transform simple strips of tape into indispensable American icons, creating a $90 billion industry, one sticky invention at a time.
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Season 14 of 4 Episodes

Founding fathers of the biggest retail stores in the world battle to be the first to innovate, build, and revolutionize the industry; one of the top businessmen of the 20th century, Sam Walton, will construct the world's largest retail empire.
A century ago, shipping packages was slow and shipping overnight was impossible, until two Seattle brothers risk everything to reinvent shipping packages for all; a tenacious Yale graduate creates a world-famous express delivery service.
The evolution of America's most beloved sports of baseball, basketball and football are made possible by the innovations of sporting goods pioneers named Spalding, Wilson, and the Rawlings brothers.
James Gamble and Harley Procter invent a revolutionary new soap that revolutionizes America and opens up a market to entrepreneurs in the late 1800s, when Americans rarely bathed and deadly diseases were commonplace.

Levi Strauss partners with a tailor who makes a groundbreaking discovery during the Gold Rush; sparking a blue jean boom and rivalry between two companies that spans generations and builds a billion-dollar industry.
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A century ago, shipping packages was slow and shipping overnight was impossible, until two Seattle brothers risk everything to reinvent shipping packages for all; a tenacious Yale graduate creates a world-famous express delivery service.
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An ambitious upstart leaves Wall Street to start an internet store that becomes a global empire; a young computer programmer revolutionizes the way we buy and sell online, creating rival multibillion-dollar brands that become household names.
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A down-on-his-luck car salesman has the visionary idea to start the first rental car company in America, and when he joins forces with cab company owner John Hertz, they spread their revolutionary business across the country.
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An underdog breaks the mold by creating instant photography, revolutionizing how we take photos; and it kicks off a war of innovation between two iconic companies battling to be the number one camera brand in the country.
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A small piece of plastic revolutionizes the world of commerce in the middle of the 20th century; Diners' Club, Bank of America and American Express race to change how people pay for everything, kicking off the $6 trillion dollar credit card industry.
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The innovations, failures and incredible achievements of some of the most successful businesses in history, from megastores like Costco and Walmart to shipping giants like FedEx and UPS, that forever changed the way Americans live.

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