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tatterhood
Apr 4, 2007

If you look out the window you will see many ruined cities & enduring seas.

C.M. Kruger posted:

Couple articles about companies going boom and then bust:

A bespoke ice cream company rises in prominence and then goes bankrupt, one of the founders describes himself as being the Steve Jobs of Ice Cream.
https://marker.medium.com/the-shocking-meltdown-of-ample-hills-brooklyns-hottest-ice-cream-company-66b27dc1791d

A jewelry company deftly maneuvers to being valued at over $1 billion through aggressive marketing and early adoption of stuff like data tracking of users on it's website, boosting their sales by 11,000% in 4 years, and then explodes.
[url=https://marker.medium.com/unlucky-charms-the-rise-and-fall-of-billion-dollar-jewelry-empire-alex-and-ani-6acd9a716fd2?gi=sd[/url]

Related only in that it's an ice cream trainwreck, but just in case anyone doesn't know this one:
The Secret, Dark, and Twisted Story Behind the Gifford Family’s Ice Cream Empire: A prestigious DC ice cream chain implodes and it gets way weirder.

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