valued at $3 billion usd
Status: Completed
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…
American Apparel
The clothing business had an interesting take on being sweatshop-free and used provocative marketing. But that mixed with a combination of other factors led to its demise.
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!
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…
Bass Pro Shops
How did they get so big
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…
AutoZone vs O’Rileys
Interested to see the two biggest names in the automotive part sales