Business
23 min
The Trojan Razor
The razor lost to Gillette. Then it sold everything standing next to it.
Gillette owned Indian shaving and never lost it. Bombay Shaving Company used a premium razor as a ticket into something Gillette was not selling at all, and the basket beside the blade became the company.
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Mythio is a library of audio documentaries on the ideas, people, and events that shaped the world. Each episode is researched across the best sources, fact-checked, and told in full. Most run twenty to thirty minutes, long enough to go deep, short enough to finish in one sitting.