HEB

Heb is a successful chain of grocery stores in Texas. They’re generally liked in their area. It would be interesting to see why they’re successful.

Reddit

valued at $3 billion usd

Discover Financial Services

Started as an offshoot of Sears in the mid-1980’s Discover credit cards are now technically the most accepted cards in the world. They operate their own payment processing network, have…

Tootsie Roll Industries

Independent company with some interesting brands Charleston Chew, Blow Pop, Andes, Jr. Mints, Dubble Bubble, Dots, Charms. I’m surprised it hasn’t been acquired. Has done well on stock market, still…

The decline of Tumblr

Tumblr has been going down lately for multiple reasons (toxic userbase, bad moderation, staff ignoring legit problems, etc.). It would be pretty cool to see a video of its decline!

Google

What started of as a simple search engine turned into a $280 billion dollar company. Google is tied into so much of peoples lives that everyone at least uses one…

AIG (American International Group)

AIG’s history is chock full of interesting twists in turns ranging from its involvement in locating bomb plants in WW2 with the OSS (Precursor to the CIA) to managing relations…

Arby’s :The rise and fall

This chain used to be around everywhere and had commercials on TV with the big hat and it seemed popular. I want to know what happened? Why did it go…