Vaporware

Every satisfying tech fraud started with a pitch that sounded too good to be true, and a room full of people who wanted to believe it. Vaporware tells the stories of technology's most spectacular cons, from 19th-century telegraph swindles to billion-dollar startup collapses. Each episode reconstructs how the fraud worked, who fell for it, and what warning signs everyone missed. Built for skeptics, founders, investors, and anyone who's ever wondered how Elizabeth Holmes convinced a room of billionaires that her box worked. Two hosts pick apart one con per episode, following the money and the psychology behind the biggest lies the tech industry ever told.