THE MAN IN BETWEEN
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THE MAN IN BETWEEN Book 1
4 parts · 13 h 40 min
St. Louis, San Francisco and Fresno, 1958 to 2015. A glassblower loses a two-thousand-dollar sale because he cannot take a credit card, and sets out with a friend from his old software company to remove the people standing between him and the money.
THE MAN IN BETWEEN Book 2
4 parts · 13 h 37 min
Sweden, Estonia, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, 1981 to 2011. Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis build two pieces of software on the same idea: that a network of ordinary computers can carry what a company in the middle used to carry.
THE MAN IN BETWEEN Book 3
4 parts · 14 h 44 min
San Francisco and Dallas, 1984 to 2026. Two companies try the same experiment forty years into a system built to keep prices unexplained: they print what the thing cost them, add a stated margin, and ask the customer to judge.
THE MAN IN BETWEEN Book 4
4 parts · 15 h 39 min
Philadelphia, Amsterdam and Los Angeles, 1994 to 2024. Three companies decide that the way past the middleman is to walk up the chain toward him and keep going — to the farm that grows the coffee, the mill that weaves the cloth, the finisher that hems the sheet.
THE MAN IN BETWEEN Book 5
4 parts · 14 h 9 min
Philadelphia, New York and Eisfeld, 2008 to 2021. Four business-school students who cannot afford a pair of glasses discover that the frames on every wall in America pass through one Italian company, and sell their own for ninety-five dollars out of an apartment.
THE MAN IN BETWEEN Book 6
4 parts · 14 h 1 min
New York, Austin, and the shopping malls in between, 1976 to 2026. Kenneth Cole sells shoes out of a borrowed trailer parked near a Manhattan hotel and builds a company on the department store floor, then spends thirty years watching his own customers told that the man in between has to go.