On this staff favorite episode, Barry Ritholtz speaks with Toto Wolff, Team Principal & CEO of the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team. Prior to joining Mercedes, Toto spent time in the investment world, founding his own company Marchfifteen in 1998 and Marchsixteen in 2004. In 2009 Toto combined his passion for racing and business by investing in the Williams F1 Team. He eventually came to be the team's Executive Director, helping to lead them toward their first win at the Spanish Grand Prix in eight years. Shortly after that win, Toto became Managing Partner of the Mercedes F1 team, where he now holds a 33% stake. In his time with Mercedes, the team has won eight Formula One Constructors' Championships and seven Drivers' Championships.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Barry Ritholtz speaks with Dana Mattioli, an investigative reporter covering Amazon for the Wall Street Journal. Since starting at the Journal in 2006 Dana has produced a string of front-page articles on everything from the troubles at Kodak and J.C. Penney to Pfizer's $150 billion deal to buy Allergan. She was a recipient of the 2021 Gerald Loeb Award for Beat Reporting as well as the 2021 WERT Prize from the Women’s Economic Round Table. Additionally, she was part of a 2016 Gerald Loeb Award team win in the breaking news category and a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2020 for her team's investigation into Amazon. She is the author of the book "The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power." On this episode, Barry and Dana discuss her path into journalism, the current era of antitrust enforcement, and Amazon's growth into the powerhouse it is today. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.