This episode of pplpod profiles Frank Lloyd Wright, the rebellious genius who fits the modern tech-founder archetype a century before Silicon Valley existed: massive ego, scandalous personal life, expensive tastes, chronic debt, and a vision so disruptive it permanently rewired how Americans live. The hosts trace his origins from rural Wisconsin in 1867, where his mother famously decorated his nursery with cathedral engravings and gave him the Frobel gifts, geometric wooden blocks that trained his mind to see the world as pure intersecting planes rather than fussy Victorian decoration. They follow his Chicago apprenticeship under Louis Sullivan, his secret "bootleg houses" that got him fired, and the rise of his Prairie Style homes such as the Robie House and Darwin D. Martin House, with their dramatic horizontal lines and overhanging eaves desig ...