The Company that Broke Canada

BobbyBroccoli presents a detailed documentary on the dramatic rise and catastrophic collapse of Canadian telecom giant Nortel Networks.

For a brief moment, Nortel Networks was on top of the world. Let's enjoy that moment while we can. Part 1 of 2. Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: go.nebula.tv/bobbybroccoli Watch part 2 extra early: nebula.tv/videos/bobbybroccoli-sinking-in-scandal-the-death-… Part 2: youtu.be/sDdC3-LT7pM?si=RfceRNpc5dZL9_pL I'm on sites! : twitter.com/bobbybroccole patreon.com/bobbybroccoli People to thank: Subtitles provided by @redslendy Charlie Arsenault – Assistant Editor @ThePlainBagel on Youtube for providing me with Nortel’s stock price data @ChrisHanel on Youtube for extensive Blender Geometry Nodes assistance @hotcyder on Youtube for the thumbnail Additional imagery licensed from Getty. Music from the Youtube Audio Library and Epidemic Sound. Additional music from @REPULSIVE and @WhitebatAudio 3D boat models are Royalty free assets: cgtrader.com/free-3d-models/watercraft/industrial-watercraft… cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/ss-edmund-fitzgerald-final cgtrader.com/free-3d-models/watercraft/recreational-watercra… cgtrader.com/free-3d-print-models/miniatures/vehicles/simple… A note on interviews: I spoke to over a dozen former Nortel employees for this series and those conversations provided many insights you'll hear throughout. Because some of the interviewees still work in the industry I have kept all names anonymous. If there is a direct quote with a name attached it's because it was a quote said publicly. Sources: The Bubble and the Bear – How Nortel Burst the Canadian Dream by Douglas Hunter (2002) Nortel Networks – How Innovation Created a Network Giant by Larry MacDonald (2000) No Fear: Tales of a Change Agent or Why I couldn’t Fix Nortel Networks by Tim Dempsey (2014) Silicon Valley North: A High Tech Cluster of Innovation and Entrepreneurship edited by Larisa V. Shavina (2004) Knights of the New Technology by David Thomas (1983) Adventures in Innovation: Inside the Rise and Fall of Nortel by John F. Tyson (2014) The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu (2011) 100 Days: The Rush to Judgement That Killed Nortel by James Bagnall (2013) For $ale to the Highest Bidder: Telecom Policy in Canada edited by Marita Moll and Leslie Regan Shade (2008) The Invisible Empire: A History of the Telecommunications Industry in Canada, 1846-1956 by Jean-Guy Rens (2001) The Avro Arrow: For the Record by Palmiro Campagna (2019) The Deal of the Century: The Breakup of AT&T by Steve Coll (1986) Asleep at the Switch: The Political Economy of Federal Research and Development Policy since 1960 by Bruce Smardon (2014) Canadian Science, Technology and Innovation Policy by G. Bruce Doern, David Castle and Peter W.B. Phillips (2016) Reconcilable Differences: A History of Canada-US Relations by Stephen Azzi (2015) Pa Bell: The Meteori