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Danish biotech NeuroSearch spent 20 years on Pridopidine. The Phase III trial failed in 2010. By 2012, the company had no funding and sold its only asset.
Leer el casoNEVS was founded in 2012 to revive Saab. It built a few 9-3s, went bankrupt in 2014, revived with Chinese money, then collapsed in 2023 with no cars delivered.
Leer el casoA Shenzhen power plant signed a KODA option with Goldman Sachs. If oil stayed above $62, it made $30K/month. If oil fell, it lost $400K per dollar. Oil crashed.
Leer el casoA Plains All American crude oil trader made unauthorized short-sell bets, forged the president's signature to conceal them, and lost $162M when oil prices rose.
Leer el casoCanSino's Convidecia was a COVID blockbuster — RMB 4.3B in 2021. When demand vanished, the company lost RMB 2.8B and 94% of its market cap.
Leer el casoChina's Brilliance Group lived on BMW JV profits while its own brands lost money. In 2020 it defaulted on ¥6.5B of bonds and entered bankruptcy restructuring.
Leer el casoChinese steel structure maker lost $6M on raw material futures. The hedge was for 'expected procurement' that never happened. It secretly used reserve funds.
Leer el casoChinese dairy company lost $5.8M trading soybean meal, sugar and urea futures. It failed to disclose the losses. The CSRC fined the company and its executives.
Leer el casoJinzi Ham's rogue trader sold 902 hog futures without authorization, losing $8.7M. His father-in-law repaid $7.4M, hiding the loss triggered a CSRC fraud probe.
Leer el casoCarlsberg closed its 18-year-old Hong Kong brewery in 1999. High costs and the Asian financial crisis made it unprofitable, and production moved to China.
Leer el casoBlue River Holdings, a Hong Kong investment firm, lost $120M on Evergrande Vehicle in 2021 when China's property crisis exploded.
Leer el casoA British Columbia day trader earned then lost $415M CAD on Tesla stock in 2022, then sued RBC for letting him keep trading.
Leer el casoSteve Jobs launched Ping in 2010 with unauthorized Facebook integration. Facebook blocked it immediately, and the social network for iTunes never recovered.
Leer el casoLilly pushed Zyprexa for dementia in the elderly despite knowing it caused extreme weight gain and raised death risk. The DOJ settlement was $1.415 billion.
Leer el casoGoogle's smartphone VR platform required a specific phone, a headset, and losing access to your apps. It lasted three years before Google pulled the plug.
Leer el casoNintendo's Wii U had a confusing GamePad and a weak launch lineup. It sold 13.56M units against the Wii's 101M, forcing Nintendo to rethink everything.
Leer el casoThe idea that willpower is a limited resource became a cornerstone of business self-help. A 2016 replication with 23 labs found no evidence it exists.
Leer el casoThe space frame roof of Hartford's new arena collapsed at 4:15 AM, hours after a basketball game. The design was too light — but nobody did the math to check.
Leer el casoQatar's sovereign wealth fund lost $300M on its Credit Suisse investment when the Swiss bank collapsed in 2023 and was taken over by UBS.
Leer el casoBalyasny Asset Management's London office lost $100M on event-driven investing in 2023, the latest in a series of losses at multi-manager hedge funds.
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