Hodinkee raised $40M to build a watch media empire — sold for $14M three years later
The watch world's most trusted media brand raised $40M, bought a pre-owned marketplace at the market's peak, and sold itself for ~$14M after the bubble burst.
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2,000 公開済みの事例 · 随時更新1&1 call centers took a name and birthday as ID — €9.55M GDPR fine, cut to €900K
A stalker who knew only her ex's name and birthdate got his new number from 1&1's hotline. The BfDI fined €9.55M; the Bonn court cut it to €900K.
事例を読むMitsubishi's Singapore unit lost $90M in unauthorized oil trades — trader fired
A trader at Mitsubishi's Singapore unit manipulated risk controls for unauthorized oil trades. Loss: $90M. Trader fired and reported to police.
事例を読むNetflix shelved a finished Bill Cosby special — and never unshelved it
Netflix postponed and then cancelled a completed Cosby special while TV Land pulled reruns — a content exodus a 2021 court ruling could not reverse.
事例を読むDubai's $1.4bn Atlantis The Royal was promised for late 2019 — it opened in February 2023
ICD and Kerzner marketed the Palm Jumeirah icon and its 231 residences on a 2019 opening promise; the reveal finally came in January 2023.
事例を読むSandRidge Energy: $4.1B of debt for a shale land grab ended in an equity-wiping Chapter 11
An oil founder bet the company on a shale acreage grab before proving well economics, and leverage turned falling oil prices into total equity wipeout.
事例を読むElitecon's 60x stock ride: ₹51.2 crore of gains impounded in SEBI pump-and-dump order
A cigarette maker's capital grew 1,508-fold, its stock rode thin liquidity to a boom, and retail bought the top — SEBI impounded ₹51.2 crore and banned five.
事例を読むHUL stripped 'health' from Horlicks and Boost after regulators said label doesn't exist
After FSSAI and NCPCR said 'health drink' has no legal definition, HUL renamed the category and stripped the word from its flagship brands.
事例を読むTelecom Italia fired CEO Amos Genish while he was in Asia, deepening its shareholder war
Italy's former phone monopoly dismissed CEO Amos Genish in November 2018 after Elliott-backed directors took the board from Vivendi.
事例を読むBilibili started as an anime fan's hobby site — it became a billion-dollar video platform
Xu Yi was an anime fan who created a site for Hatsune Miku fans. His hobby grew into a major Chinese video platform worth billions.
事例を読むThe UCLA graduate student who faked a landmark study — and changed the gay marriage debate
Michael LaCour fabricated data in a Science study claiming gay canvassers changed minds on marriage. The study had already influenced real policy.
事例を読むMorellato policed distributors' discounts for 7 years — a whistleblower ended it
Italian jeweler Morellato fined €25.9M for capping online discounts and banning Amazon and eBay.
事例を読むSendo shut down twice — FPT's 14-year e-commerce bet collapsed in two stages
Vietnam's FPT-backed e-commerce platform shut down its general marketplace in 2025, then its grocery pivot in 2026 — two exits, one retreat from e-commerce.
事例を読むGermany's e-health card: 15 years, €606m of agency spending, almost no working uses
Germany's electronic health card ran by consensus for 15 years. Auditors found no practical benefit - and a bill nobody could total.
事例を読むBitMEX invented the perpetual swap, then fines and rivals shrank it to 0.08% — it closed
BitMEX pioneered crypto perpetual swaps and held 57% of the market in 2019. After $200M+ in fines, rivals took the volume and it shut down in Sept 2026.
事例を読むThe Weinstein Company fired its founder — and was bankrupt five months later
Eight days after the Times story the board fired him; five months later the studio named for him was bankrupt and its 277-film library sold for $289M.
事例を読むVipshop's cooling failure cost ¥100M and a VP his job
A failed cooling system at Vipshop's Nansha data centre knocked out service for 8M+ customers, caused ¥100M+ in losses, and cost the platform VP his job
事例を読むThe UK DfT threw out its own West Coast rail franchise award over flawed bid math
The DfT picked FirstGroup for the West Coast line in August 2012, then cancelled the award weeks later after finding errors in its own bid evaluation.
事例を読むChina fined Ctrip ¥5.2 billion for forcing hotels to choose — the first OTA antitrust case
The market regulator imposed a record ¥5.179 billion penalty for 'choose one' exclusive dealing and price-fixing on hotel partners
事例を読むSevenBrew built a hit beer on a borrowed brand — when the licence ended, it had nothing
Gompyo Wheat Beer, brewed by SevenBrew under a flour brand's licence, was 97% of its sales. When the licence ended in 2023, SevenBrew slid into receivership.
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