Blockbuster’s Netflix rejection — $50B lost opportunity
In the late 1990s and early...
Pets.com — the dot-com bubble’s poster child
At the height of the dot-com...
WeWork’s failed IPO circus
In 2019, WeWork, the office-sharing startup...
Quibi’s billion-dollar flop on the stock exchange
Quibi, short for “quick bites,” launched...
Kodak ignoring the digital camera revolution
Eastman Kodak, once synonymous with photography,...
AOL–Time Warner: the worst merger in stock market history
In January 2000, as the dot-com...
The “order flow” conspiracy — how brokers really make money
For decades, retail traders have assumed...
Who gains from corporate bankruptcy announcements?
For most people, the word bankruptcy...
Was the 2020 COVID crash accelerated by deliberate panic selling?
In February and March of 2020,...
The mysterious “flash crashes” and who benefits
Flash crashes are some of the...