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Long before Silicon Valley, the grandson of a 15th century German peasant named Jacob Fugger built a mining and banking empire that dwarfed today’s tech titans, accumulating a fortune estimated at $4tn in today’s terms.
Hosts Gillian Tett and Robin Wigglesworth are joined by historian and author Greg Steinmetz to unpack the saga of history's ultimate balance-sheet nerd.
Watch the full episode here:
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