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72 analyses · People & Control
What Happens to a Company Built Around One Irreplaceable Person? Berkshire After Buffett
Berkshire Hathaway
Closed on Sundays, Still the Highest-Grossing Fast Food in America: The Strategy Hidden in Chick-fil-A's Culture
Chick-fil-A
'Earth Is Now Our Only Shareholder': How Patagonia's Founder Made His Values Impossible to Undo
Patagonia
Chouinard Didn't Give Patagonia Away. He Wrote the Cleverest Will in Business History.
Patagonia
Musk Didn't Buy Twitter. A Delaware Court Made Him Pay for It.
X (Twitter)
Nordstrom's One-Rule Handbook Was a Half-Truth. So Was the Moat It Promised.
Nordstrom
Mars Stays Private on Purpose. It Wrote the Reason Into Its Own Rules.
Mars
Boeing Didn't Lose Its Engineering Culture. It Was Bought Out, One Decision at a Time.
Boeing
Vanguard's Customers "Own" the Firm. The Word Owns More Than They Do.
Vanguard
Hershey Can't Be Sold Without an Orphan School's Permission. That's by Design.
Hershey
Unilever Tried to Give Mayonnaise a Purpose. A Shareholder Called It Losing the Plot.
Unilever
Netflix's 'Team, Not a Family' Deck Wasn't a Philosophy. It Was a Filter.
Netflix
FTX Didn't Lose the Customer Money by Accident. The Code Was Written to Take It.
FTX
Nordstrom's One Rule Is a Brilliant Lie — and That's Exactly Why It Works
Nordstrom
GameStop Never Turned Around. It Got a Cash Transfusion and Called It a Recovery.
GameStop
Samsung Owns the Whole Chip-to-Phone Stack. The Part It Can't Sell Is Quietly Bleeding.
Samsung
Musk Didn't Buy Twitter. A Delaware Court Made Him.
Musk-Twitter
WeWork Didn't Fail at Real Estate. It Failed at Saying No to One Man.
WeWork
Palantir Built a Company Around a Manifesto. The Manifesto Is Also the Risk.
Palantir
Reddit Has Two Owners Who Want Opposite Things. Its Whole Doctrine Is Pretending They Don't.
Reddit
Abercrombie Sold Exclusion as a Product. The Courts Sent the Invoice.
Abercrombie & Fitch
Unilever Keeps Issuing One Cultural Doctrine for 400 Brands. That's the Bug, Not the Brand.
Unilever
Toyota's Culture Is 73 Quotes in a 13-Page Book. That's Both Its Genius and Its Trap.
Toyota
Aramco Sold 1.5% of Itself and Changed Nothing. That Was the Whole Point.
Saudi Aramco
Nucor's Famous No-Layoff Culture Isn't Generosity. It's Risk Transfer.
Nucor
Theranos Wasn't Built on a Blood Test. It Was Built on a Share Class.
Theranos
Circuit City Fired Its Best People to Save Money. The Discipline Was Real. So Was the Suicide.
Circuit City
Marvel Was Worth More as Collateral Than as a Company — Until the People Who Believed in It Won
Marvel
Old Spice Didn't Win the Super Bowl. It Won by Refusing to Run.
Old Spice
Ryanair Is Rude on Purpose. The Rudeness Is a Line on the P&L.
Ryanair