Company Forensics
A blog by Slidebean
Quibi: celebrity endorsements weren't enough
Celebrity endorsements weren't enough for Quibi to succeed.
How Microsoft saved Apple from Bankruptcy
Apple might be the archetype of a rags-to-riches story. They seem to have done it all. This is Company Forensics: How Microsoft saved Apple from Bankruptcy.
Softbank $24 Billion down the drain
Softbank, is a giant in multiple industries, with aggressive investment and fast expansion. But also, controversy and very costly mistakes. We'll tell you about Softbank in this episode of Company Forensics.
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.
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.
Theranos: when a sociopath convinces investors
She rocked magazine covers, and the media called her the female Steve Jobs. Theranos was worth billions. But it was all a lie.
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.
The day Android had to throw away all their code
The year is 2007. Imagine that you aim to disrupt the mobile phone market. You are sure that your idea is the way to go, and your team spends endless hours developing the star product. As you are on a business trip, you hear the news and reality sets in: someone has beaten you to it, and their idea is much, much better. That someone is Apple, and you are Google. Your choices are limited, so you decide to go back to the drawing board. Google had to reinvent its proposal for a smartphone. But this ended up being a good thing. In this episode of Forensics, we'll tell you all about how the first Android phone rose from the ashes of a failed project.
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.
The death of Yahoo! (and how they almost bought Google)
$125 BN. That's how valuable Yahoo! was at its peak; that was more than Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors combined. And it all began as a hobby. Yahoo! brought us many of the services we take for granted today, including cloud storage and setting up your website. But the name Yahoo! has disappeared, consumed in the food chain that is the tech world. How did it get to this? We'll tell you all about Yahoo! in this episode of Company Forensics.
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