The founding fathers of the biggest retail stores in the world battle to be the first to innovate, build, and revolutionise the industry. One of the top businessmen of the 20th century, Sam Walton, constructs the world's largest retail empire.

Two Seattle brothers risk everything to reinvent the way that the world ships packages, making it possible to deliver packages overnight.

The evolution of America's most beloved sports of baseball, basketball and football are made possible by the innovations of sporting goods pioneers named Spalding, Wilson, and the Rawlings brothers.

In the late 1800s, Americans rarely bathe. They live in filthy conditions and deadly diseases are commonplace. But James Gamble and Harley Procter invent a revolutionary new soap that revolutionises America and opens up a market to entrepreneurs.

International telecommunications companies battle to produce the most popular mobile phone, developing flip phones, ringtones and text messaging; Blackberry combines the features of a computer with a mobile phone to make a smartphone.

A database software engineer is inspired to create a bigger, family-friendly video store, Blockbuster; an opening appears for two software executives in California to take on the media giant with their online subscription service, Netflix.