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Company Forensics

Farmville and the plague that killed it

When Facebook opened its platform for developers, back in 2009, Farmville leveraged the social platform and soon managed to amass more than 32 million daily players and about 90 million total. The game is over now, but its legacy of monetization and addictive mechanics on video games is real.

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Mar 2, 2021
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David Marin
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Only Fans explained: how much money can a nude make?

What do you get if you can have influencers and explicit pay-per-view content in the same place? What you get is OnlyFans, and people are still figuring out the morality around it.

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Feb 9, 2021
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David Marin
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The Assassination of Movie Theaters

HBO recently shocked the movie industry when they announced that their 2021 movies would be released simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max. A decision like this could be the final blow to that centennial rite of watching movies in a dark room with a giant screen, blasting sound, and a hundred other people.

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Jan 21, 2021
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David Marin
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Fyre Festival: dumb planning or genius scam?

The infamous Fyre Festival wasn't at all what its organizers promise. It was in fact, a complete chaos and an enormous scam.

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Jan 19, 2021
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David Marin
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Among Us: when indie goes mainstream

Video games have a rightful place in popular culture. Some of them are so wildly popular that they turn into a global phenomenon, and Among Us is the latest one.

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Jan 12, 2021
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David Marin
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Why is Slack worth $27B to Salesforce?

Salesforce, the customer relations management company, just got Slack for itself for a good $27 billion.

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Dec 15, 2020
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David Marin
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Herbalife: genius MLM or pyramid scheme?

Herbalife: genius MLM or pyramid scheme?

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Nov 24, 2020
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David Marin
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The biggest Ponzi scheme in Wall Street history: Bernard Madoff

Bernie Madoff: A $64 billion disaster that left immeasurable tragedy for thousands of victims, orchestrated by a Wall Street sociopath.

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Nov 3, 2020
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David Marin
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Quibi: celebrity endorsements weren't enough

Celebrity endorsements weren't enough for Quibi to succeed.

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Oct 27, 2020
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David Marin
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The Windows Phone: an $8 Billion fiasco

In the light of a supposed second round for Microsoft making phones, let's remember the OG Windows Phone.

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Oct 8, 2020
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David Marin
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Shopify: quietly moving $30B a year

In May 2020, Shopify became the largest Canadian public company when it surpassed the Royal Bank of Canada by raising its market capitalization to $120B.

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Oct 1, 2020
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David Marin
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Apple vs Fortnite: the battle for the AppStores

No one saw it coming. At least not the millions of teenagers and young adults who played Fortnite on iPhones or iPads. On August 13, Apple removed Fortnite from the App Store for good. It is a high stakes dispute, and yet all this Fortnite affair is probably just the straw that broke the camel’s back. Welcome to Slidebean Forensics: the App Store battle.

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Sep 22, 2020
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David Marin
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Boston Dynamics: The company making robots to replace us

Robots you may see killing humans in recent Netflix shows, look a lot like robots that are available in the market. Yes, you may have seen that Black Mirror episode where a robotic dog hunts people, and you may notice the uncanny resemblance with Spot, the newest robot dog from Boston Dynamics.

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Sep 15, 2020
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David Marin
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Mixer: Why Microsoft keeps failing at being cool

One of the privileged industries experiencing growth during the current pandemic crisis is the gaming industry. Yet in this atmosphere of growth and opportunity, many were affected when all of a sudden the game-streaming platform Mixer, owned by Microsoft, announced that it was shutting down, recently in June. Does this mean Microsoft lost the battle for game-streaming services? Are they relying on Facebook’s social and streaming DNA; while they can focus on making games available to more people?

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Aug 18, 2020
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David Marin
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Segway: An overpriced mall cop ride

It was bound to happen, and it just happened. Last June, Segway's president, Ms. Judy Cai, announced that the company was utterly ceasing the Segway PT production, or as it was initially named, the Segway HT, for "Human Transporter."

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Aug 11, 2020
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David Marin
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Amazon Fire: Jeff Bezos' failed phone

We have talked about phone companies in the past. Remember those episodes about Blackberry or Motorola, companies who once were at the very top of the industry and somehow ended up falling in battle. Today, we will not exactly talk about a phone company but about a phone, yeah, a particular one. A phone that, for better or worse, had everyone's attention just by existing, just because it was created by one of the largest internet companies in the world: the Amazon Fire Phone.

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Jul 30, 2020
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David Marin
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How did Microsoft ruin Nokia?

Nokia is a Finnish multinational corporation that goes all the way back to the nineteenth century and started with wood mills that produced mainly paper. Yes, the same Nokia that a hundred years later created cultural icons like the 1110 phone model a lot of you probably rocked at some point, back in the early 2000s.

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Jul 23, 2020
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David Marin
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What happened to Blockbuster: Why didn't they buy Netflix?

You may have heard the argument that this company was meant to be what Netflix is today. But it may not be all that simple. So, let's talk about Blockbuster, the movie rental giant that dominated the market and delivered home entertainment to virtually everybody in the US during a couple of decades, reaching its pinnacle in the late 1990s; and then succumbed to the changes that the new millennium brought. 

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Jul 7, 2020
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David Marin
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Google Plus: A $585 MILLION mistake

If there was one big and powerful tech company that could dethrone Facebook from its social media kingdom, who would that be? Think about it, there aren’t really a lot of options. 

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Apr 24, 2020
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David Marin
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The death of Periscope and Meerkat | Company Forensics

Today’s episode of Company Forensics is about live-streaming apps, something that we all take very much for granted today as we’re not impressed anymore by seeing anyone going live on social media, to broadcast whatever from their phones. Literally, whatever... which is probably part of the problem here, but we’ll get into that later on.

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Mar 19, 2020
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David Marin
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What happened to Vine? | Company Forensics

In today’s episode of Startup Forensics, we’re going to throwback to Vine and dig into some key aspects of its rise and fall, including Twitter’s acquisition of the company, along with some product, and competition analysis.

Posted on 
Nov 28, 2019
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David Marin
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David Marin

Customer Success Manager at Slidebean. Writer since a kid. Yeah, started with little poems, stories, and moved to TV and film scripts after professional scriptwriting studies. Tech passionate and curious by default.

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