Listening to PWTorch podcast with Seth Mates' interview, he confirms Rob Van Dam was supposed to be first World Heavyweight Champion instead of Triple H.
The story goes that Vince got a call from SOMEONE (HHH) who said that it'd be better if a heel were a champion and that championship wasn't there the previous day (being handed it) and that it's a heel thing to do and RVD would benefit more from winning it off the heel and it would mean more. RVD's win never happened.
The reason Big Show went over Brock at Survivor Series was because of a fight between Hogan-Vince and Vince wanted to prove he could make another Hogan, thus, the Brock face turn.
They also talk about HHH's ego, this generation, part timers, performance center, etc...must listen. He said Heyman is the best creative mind in the history of the business, not the Vince myth.
(Btw, I think it'd be cool if this was turned into the "All Purpose Podcast thread")