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72 analyses · People & Control
Abercrombie Didn't Apologize Its Way Back. It Re-Engineered the Product.
Abercrombie & Fitch
Lululemon Didn't Skip Advertising. It Swapped One Expensive Habit for One Free One.
Lululemon
Patagonia Told You Not to Buy the Jacket. It Was Rehearsing for the Day It Gave Away the Company.
Patagonia
Berkshire's Famous 'Autonomy' Isn't a Philosophy. It's a Math Problem It Solved by Refusing to Manage.
Berkshire Hathaway
Mateschitz Built Red Bull. He Never Owned It.
Red Bull
Old Spice Sold Manliness to Men. Its Comeback Sold It to Women.
Old Spice
Buffett's First Love Wasn't a Stock. It Was a Way to Get Capital for Free.
Geico
Chanel Spent More When Profit Fell 30%. That's What Private Buys.
Chanel
Rolex Can't Be Bought. A Dead Man Made Sure of It.
Rolex
Rupert Murdoch Couldn't Buy Control From the Grave. So He Bought His Children Out Instead.
Fox
Marvel Didn't Bet the Company on Iron Man. It Bought a Free Option on Independence.
Marvel
Chewy Sends Flowers When Your Dog Dies. That's the Whole Strategy.
Chewy
Circuit City Didn't Fire Its Best Salespeople. It Fired Whoever Cost Too Much.
Circuit City
The Hawaiian Shirt Is a Cost-Control Device. The Lawsuit Is What It Cost.
Trader Joe's
Costco's High Wages and Its 4,000-Item Limit Are the Same Decision
Costco
Palantir's Culture Isn't a Vibe. It's a Moat With a Manifesto.
Palantir
Amazon's 'Day 1' Wasn't a Founding Creed. It Was Written Backwards.
Amazon
Reddit's Cheapest Employees Are the Ones It Cannot Afford to Lose
Reddit
Everyone Photocopied Netflix's Culture Deck. Almost No One Can Run It.
Netflix
The Most Copied Org Chart in Tech Was a Snapshot Spotify Itself Walked Away From.
Spotify
Michael Dell Has Spent a Decade Buying One Thing Back: Control
Dell
Lululemon Sold a Feeling. Now the Feeling Won't Let It Listen.
Lululemon
Red Bull Doesn't Buy Ads. It Builds an Audience and Bills It.
Red Bull
Starbucks Never Built the 'Third Place.' It Just Sold the Story Brilliantly.
Starbucks
Subway Stayed Private for 60 Years. Then Estate Math Did What Strategy Never Would.
Subway
Kodak Built a Chemical Empire to Protect Film. Then Film Couldn't Leave the Empire.
Kodak
Jack Welch Never Called It 'Rank and Yank.' The Phrase He Hated Outlived the Company He Built.
GE
Arnault Built a Succession Plan With No Successor. That's the Point.
LVMH
Johann Rupert Owns a Tenth of Richemont and Can Never Be Outvoted. That's the Whole Design.
Richemont
Bloomberg Doesn't Stay Private by Choice. It's Engineered So It Can't Go Public.
Bloomberg