The Profit Prophet

The Pizza Hut Prophet: How a Bored Teenager Built the Blueprint for Digital Domination

Episode Summary

In 1994, a 22-year-old Stanford student convinced Pizza Hut to let him build the first-ever online ordering system—not because he loved pizza, but because he was procrastinating on his thesis. That student was Dan Kohn, and his PizzaNet became the template every e-commerce giant still follows today, yet almost nobody knows his name.