Ahead of Their Time
For every company that's making headlines today, there were companies a decade or two ago that had already espoused a similar product, service or idea. For instance, there was Vestron before Netflix, and Quorn before Impossible Foods came along. So what happened? Where exactly did these predecessors fail? Delve into the business stories of ten pioneering companies in five different sectors - examining one who was an early predecessor that operated in a burgeoning market, and another, in today's world that seems to have caught on to a winning formula. What are the lessons to be gleaned? And how their life-changing products and services shape the way we live, eat and connect.
Cast & Crew
| Producer | Kelly Lin |
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- Oldest First
- Newest First
Get exclusive insights from the founders of The Lonely Planet and Airbnb. They were trailblazers in the travel industry who went against the grain. Garmin and Fitbit: pioneers who took fantasy ideas of wearables and turned them into reality. Trailblazers like Rude Health and Vitasoy who transformed alternative milk from yuck to yum. And trendsetters F45 and Zumba who instigated new movements in fitness and wellness.
The age of independent travel was shaped by trailblazers like Lonely Planet with its iconic guidebooks and Airbnb with its unique home-sharing proposition.
The age of independent travel was shaped by trailblazers like Lonely Planet with its iconic guidebooks and Airbnb with its unique home-sharing proposition.
Wearables were turned from a fantasy idea to reality through pioneers like Garmin and its devices for athletes, and Fitbit who led the consumer health movement that would take over our wrists.
Wearables were turned from a fantasy idea to reality through pioneers like Garmin and its devices for athletes, and Fitbit who led the consumer health movement that would take over our wrists.
Dairy is no longer your only choice when it comes to milk, all thanks for Vitasoy who first made soy milk for refugees, and Rude Health who created the health foods brand taking the UK by storm.
Dairy is no longer your only choice when it comes to milk, all thanks for Vitasoy who first made soy milk for refugees, and Rude Health who created the health foods brand taking the UK by storm.
The fitness industry is always serving up a new fad, but few have made it to the status of fitness phenomenon, like Zumba's dance fitness movement and F45, the latest worldwide HIIT franchise.
The fitness industry is always serving up a new fad, but few have made it to the status of fitness phenomenon, like Zumba's dance fitness movement and F45, the latest worldwide HIIT franchise.