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Company Man - YouTube
Company Profiles - YouTube Asianometry
History of Gadgets - YouTube tech companies
Logically Answered - YouTube
MegaLag - YouTube exposé investigation

Office Snapshots - Discover Worldwide Office Design

IC 实验室 - YouTube
经济洞察 - YouTube
消费战争 - YouTube

外國的月亮就是圓?從元氣森林名創優品到傑士邦,真國產為什麽總用假洋牌忽悠人?- IC 實驗室出品 - YouTube
賣吊牌一年血賺 13 億?股價秒殺茅台,3 個月漲幅 133%?揭秘中國貼牌宇宙是如何坑消費者的錢的?- IC 實驗室出品 - YouTube

Intricately: Marketing & Sales Intelligence estimate spending of company on infrastructure
Intricately: Mapping the Internet with Fima Leshinsky - Software Engineering Daily

FANG Stocks Definition Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google
FAANG Stocks Definition FANG, Apple
FAAMG Stocks Replaced Netflix with Microsoft
BAT Stocks Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent
BATH Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, Huawei

Funding

How Company X Make Money? - Adrian Mejia’s Blog
How do our favorite tech companies make money?

Crunchbase: Discover innovative companies and the people behind them
為什麼 AI 之花綻放在硅谷?「創業大學」Y Combinator 的故事| ChatGPT 深度探尋 - YouTube

Different Types of Funding Sources for your Startup
Alphabet Rounds

Why Google Is Suddenly Obsessed With Your Photos - The Ringer
When a service is free, you are the product/asset.
Find Out What Google and Facebook Know About You – Trust Issues – Medium
聊聊市场营销/广告的玩法 (原来你这么值钱!) - YouTube targeted ads

Who Owns Huawei? The Company Tried to Explain. It Got Complicated. - The New York Times
Who Owns Huawei? by Christopher Balding, Donald C. Clarke :: SSRN
Huawei 5G LIES! - YouTube

Enshittification

Enshittification - Wikiwand

  1. provide competitive (cheap and/or high quality) product to lock-in users
  2. make product worse to better serve (lock-in) business customers
  3. make product even worse for maximum profits

Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow on Amazon, Facebook and Tiktok
Pluralistic: How monopoly enshittified Amazon/28 Nov 2022 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
"Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die."

The Enshittification of TikTok–And Everything – The Cultural Gutter
The Internet is starting to Break - Here's Why. - YouTube

Crowdfunding

How Crowdfunding Works | HowStuffWorks
How Kickstarter Works | HowStuffWorks
The Best and Worst of Crowdfunding | TechStuff podacst

How Zano Raised Millions on Kickstarter and Left Most Backers with Nothing

Startup Story

Out of the picture: why the world's best photo startup is going out of business | The Verge

How We Built a $150 Million Streaming Platform with $100,000 - YouTube Nebula (+ Curiosity Stream)
How Nebula Works - YouTube

Lenovo

Lenovo - Wikiwand
联想集团 - Wikiwand

Lenovo - The Last Practical Electronics Maker - YouTube

McDonald's

你以為麥當勞只靠賣漢堡、薯條就發大財?那你就太天真了...呵呵呵...|麥當勞叔叔的黑暗計謀# 1/2 - YouTube
麥當勞「更深一層」的內幕!聽了上一集你就以為麥當勞是「靠土地賺錢的」就還是太傻太可愛了~|麥當勞叔叔的黑暗詭計# 2/2 - YouTube
吧啦吧吧吧,請買下我們頻道吧 | 老高與小茉 Mr & Mrs Gao - YouTube

从高档洋快餐到社区大食堂,肯德基玩明白了?- IC实验室出品 - YouTube
麥當勞大富翁游戲抽獎,竟然成了一場騙局 - YouTube

KFC

肯德基魔改小吃简史,热干面螺蛳粉串串香:KFC就是不好好做鸡?- IC实验室出品 - YouTube

Lytro

Lytro: The $360 Million Company That Died - Krazy Ken’s Tech Talk - YouTube

IKEA

The INSANE Truth About IKEA - YouTube

Product placement

YouTubers have to declare ads. Why doesn't anyone else? - YouTube

Logo Lookalikes: Vintage Predecessors to Contemporary Company Logos - 99% Invisible
Logo Of The Day - Logo Design Inspiration, Gallery & Award Scheme!
Logopond - Identity Inspiration
How to Make a Logo in 4 Different Ways Using Kittl

What is the best logo ever created? - Quora
Generic and overused logos - Avoid them!
Are there any free logo makers? - Quora
These disastrous big-name logo redesigns are getting roasted on TikTok | Creative Bloq

Why brands are abandoning their colors - YouTube

手機品牌 Logo 進化史, 你應該都沒看過多少個 - Qooah

20 Corporate Brand Logo Evolution | InstantShift

Logo Evolution of 25 Famous Brands - Hongkiat

21 Logo Evolutions of the World’s Well Known Logo Designs | Bored Panda

你知道嗎 ? 蘋果 LOGO 中的彩虹也有其意義 - UNWIRE.HK

Announcing the next evolution of our red fedora mark

Evolving the Google Identity - Articles - Google Design
Google, evolved - YouTube
Google's New Logo: Standing Out or Blending In? by ZURB

Symbolism

What logos include hidden messages in their design? - Quora
20 Clever Logos with Hidden Symbolism «TwistedSifter
Smart Logos with Hidden Symbolism | Webdesigner Depot
50 Fantastically Clever Logos | Design Shack

Logo Creator

Hostinger AI Logo Maker requires login

Downfall of Philips

The Death of Europe's Last Electronics Giant - YouTube
The Tragic Downfall of Philips - YouTube

Downfall of Yahoo

Yahoo was sold to Verizon with a sum of $4.83 billion in July 2016.

What Sank Yahoo? Blame Its Nice Guy Founders - Bloomberg
Platform change, the Yahoo-slayer | TechCrunch

Downfall of Nokia

From Bankruptcy To Billions: The Rebirth Of Nokia - YouTube

Downfall of IBM

The Decline of IBM - YouTube
How IBM Lost the PC to Compaq, Intel & Microsoft - YouTube
IBM "invented" the PC. Then everyone stole it - YouTube

Downfall of Intel

The Slow and Deserved - YouTube

Downfall of GE

The Fall of General Electric - YouTube

Demise of Kodak

Why Fujifilm Survived (& Kodak Didn't) - YouTube

Demise of Boeing

谎言、打压、逐利与权力游戏,波音是如何失去制造骄 傲的? - YouTube

Demise of Theranos

矽谷「世紀騙局」!估值九十億美元的 Theranos 公司,如何半年內瞬間崩潰?| 惡血 Bad Blood | 啾讀。第 46 集 | 啾啾鞋 - YouTube
一滴血的骗局 - 世界最美女骗子 - YouTube
19 歲女子累積騙錢 90 億,HBO 揭露硅谷離奇商業騙局「曉涵哥來了」 - YouTube
Theranos – Silicon Valley’s Greatest Disaster - YouTube
Theranos’s invention never would have worked. Here’s why. - YouTube

The life story of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes - Business Insider
Theranos whistleblowers launch company to help startups avoid mistakes - Business Insider
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley – The rise and fall of Theranos founder
Elizabeth Holmes’s Possible Defense in Theranos Case: Put the Government on Trial - The New York Times
A £9bn lie: Blood testing company boss Elizabeth Holmes now faces 20 years behind bars
They said it: On Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes

Demise of Springboard

Springboard: the secret history of the first real smartphone (Full Documentary) - YouTube

Honey Scam

Honey extension using unethical methods to get your last click to poach the commission
It also fails to offer the best discount to the consumers
Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam - YouTube

EnChroma Scam

EnChroma CEO Responds to my Exposé (Part 3) - YouTube
Exposing the Fake Science behind Color Blind Glasses (Part 2) - YouTube
EnChroma CEO Responds to my Exposé (Part 3) - YouTube

Planned Obsolescence

This is why we can't have nice things - YouTube
Longer-lasting light bulbs: it was complicated - YouTube

Phoebus Cartel
Right to repair

Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking – BadCyber
Case Of The Sabotaged Trains | Prime Reacts - YouTube