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Intuitive Doesn't Give Away the Razor. It Sells the Blade a Chip Won't Let You Refuse.
Intuitive Surgical
Thermo Fisher Sells Pipettes. Its Real Business Is Renting Out the Lab.
Thermo Fisher
Theranos Wasn't a Dream That Failed. It Was a Lie That Worked for a Decade.
Theranos
Purdue Didn't Slip Through the Cracks. The Government Helped Build the Door.
Purdue Pharma
23andMe Sold Spit Kits to Buy a Drug Company. The Drug Company Never Arrived.
23andMe
Bayer Paid $63 Billion for a Lawsuit It Could Read in Advance
Bayer
Warner Bros. Discovery Renamed Its Streaming Service Three Times. The Real Story Was the $41.5 Billion It Inherited.
Warner Bros Discovery
Paramount Didn't Lose the Streaming War. It Lost an Argument With Arithmetic.
Paramount
Comcast Isn't a Media Company. It's a Broadband Toll Booth Bankrolling One.
Comcast
AT&T Spent $100 Billion to Become a Media Company. It Lasted Four Years.
AT&T
Verizon Won the Network 35 Times Running. Then It Tried to Be Google.
Verizon
Fox Didn't Choose to Be a Live-Only Network. The FCC Chose for It.
Fox
The New York Times Didn't Organically Cross 10 Million Subscribers. It Bought the Last Mile.
New York Times
Universal Music's Real Asset Isn't the Next Hit. It's the Songs Nobody Notices It Owns.
Universal Music
Live Nation Built a Loop Antitrust Law Couldn't Pry Open. It Took Two Decrees and a Jury to Try.
Live Nation
Quibi Raised $1.75 Billion Before It Had a Single Subscriber. That Was the Bug, Not the Bridge.
Quibi
Vice Was Worth $5.7 Billion. It Sold for $350 Million — and Even That Was Paid in IOUs.
Vice Media
BuzzFeed Wasn't a Media Company. It Was a Spread Trade on Someone Else's Traffic.
BuzzFeed
Hermès Killed the Birkin Waitlist in 2010. The Scarcity Got Worse on Purpose.
Hermes
Kering Looks Like a Luxury Portfolio. It's a Leveraged Bet on One House's Mood Swings.
Kering (Gucci)
Richemont Isn't a Watch-and-Jewelry Empire. It's Two Jewelers Carrying a Watch Habit.
Richemont
Chanel Doubled the Price of a Handbag in a Decade. Inflation Explains Almost None of It.
Chanel
Estée Lauder Didn't Bet on China. It Bet on a Loophole — and Stayed Quiet When Beijing Closed It.
Estee Lauder
L'Oréal Doesn't Buy Brands. It Buys Empty Rungs on a Ladder It Already Built.
L'Oreal
Marriott Owns Almost None of Its Hotels. Then It Was Forced to Buy One for $500 Million.
Marriott
Hilton Owns Almost No Hotels. It Sells Owners the One Thing They Can't Get Anywhere Else.
Hilton
United Doesn't Sell Flights. It Sells Miles to a Bank — and Flies You as a Side Effect.
United Airlines
Emirates Didn't Find a Hub. It Built One Where the World Has to Change Planes.
Emirates
FedEx Didn't Win on a Bright Idea. It Won When Washington Let It Fly Bigger Planes.
FedEx
UPS Just Fired Its Biggest Customer. That's the Whole Strategy.
UPS