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37 companies
Advance Auto Parts
Automotive Retail
Sprawling parts distribution network that warehouses thousands of automotive components, releasing them through retail channels as vehicles age and br...
Albertsons Companies
Grocery & Supermarkets
Grocery conglomerate merging regional chains into national footprint, negotiating bulk discounts with suppliers and rotating perishables through tempe...
Allego N.V.
EV Charging Infrastructure
Allego plants charging stations across Europe like mycorrhizal networks spread through soil - infrastructure that feeds EVs wherever they root. The ne...
Americold Realty Trust
Cold Chain & Warehousing
Americold freezes food like wood frogs survive winter - metabolic suppression through cold storage. Temperature-controlled warehouses hold produce, me...
Amwell
Digital Health
Amwell connects patients and doctors remotely like whales communicate across ocean basins - acoustic signals carrying medical information through fibe...
Autoliv, Inc.
Automotive Supplier
Autoliv manufactures safety systems—airbags and seatbelts that deploy in milliseconds like trap-jaw ant mandibles. Their products lie dormant for year...
Avianca Holdings (2020)
Aviation
Avianca's May 2020 bankruptcy filed days after LATAM, creating a pandemic one-two punch for Latin American aviation. The 100-year-old Colombian carrie...
BJ's Wholesale Club
Warehouse Club
BJ's Wholesale operates membership warehouses on the East Coast—bulk buying for families and businesses. Like squirrels hoarding nuts for winter, cust...
BlackSky
Space Intelligence
Satellite imaging firm BlackSky harvests visual data like raptors hunting from altitude - high-orbit perspective spots patterns ground competitors mis...
BorgWarner Inc.
Automotive Supplier
Auto parts supplier BorgWarner adapts product mix as auto industry evolves - phenotypic plasticity shifting from combustion to electric drivetrains.
Build-A-Bear Workshop
Specialty Retail
Retail bowerbird where kids construct personalized teddy displays—selecting fur, outfits, sounds to signal affection. Each bear becomes kin-proxy, a s...
Burlington Stores
Off-Price Retail
Off-price vulture circling department store carcasses—buying overstock, canceled orders, last season's merchandise at 40% off. Treasure-hunt model tur...
California Resources Corporation
Oil & Gas
California Resources Corporation's July 2020 bankruptcy collapsed Occidental Petroleum's spinoff of its California conventional oil assets. The 2014 s...
Capri Holdings
Luxury Goods
Luxury fashion house managing Versace, Jimmy Choo, Michael Kors—three peacocks displaying different plumage patterns. Each brand signals status throug...
CBRE Group (Logistics Division)
Warehousing & Logistics
Logistics real estate builder—massive distribution centers positioned near population hubs for same-day delivery. Each warehouse a leafcutter nest: go...
Ceridian
Human Resources Technology
Ceridian's Dayforce tracks employee lifecycles like ant colonies managing castes - payroll, benefits, and workforce data flowing through centralized H...
Charles River Laboratories
Contract Research
Charles River breeds research models and safety tests like specialized parasitoid wasps - providing laboratory animals and toxicology for pharma compa...
Dana Incorporated (2006)
Auto Parts
Dana Incorporated's 2006 bankruptcy collapsed a 102-year-old auto parts manufacturer serving the Big Three. The company made axles, driveshafts, and s...
Dell Technologies
Technology Hardware
Dell assembles computers like termites building mounds - modular components snapped together in Texas factories. Its supply chain synchronizes global...
Despegar
Online Travel
Despegar aggregates Latin American travel like fig trees attracting pollinators. Its platform connects hotels, airlines, and tourists across 20 countr...
Diamond Offshore Drilling
Oil Services
Diamond Offshore's April 2020 bankruptcy collapsed a major offshore drilling contractor when oil prices made deepwater drilling uneconomic. The compan...
Dick's Sporting Goods
Specialty Retail
Dick's Sporting Goods stocks athletic gear like squirrels hoarding nuts. Its suburban big-box stores warehouse equipment for seasonal sports - ski gea...
E2open
Supply Chain Software
Supply chain software connecting manufacturers to suppliers—mycelial networks transmitting signals across industrial ecosystems. Visibility into multi...
Eastman Kodak
Consumer Electronics
Kodak's 2012 bankruptcy ended a 130-year photography empire that invented digital imaging but couldn't capitalize on it. The company held early digita...
Energy Vault
Energy Storage
Gravity-based energy storage using concrete blocks—potential energy banking like squirrels storing acorns. Renewable grid stabilization through mechan...
ESS Inc.
Energy Storage
Iron flow battery storage for renewable grids—long-duration energy banking like bears storing fat for hibernation. Solving intermittency through chemi...
Fisker Inc.
Electric Vehicles
Electric vehicle startup designing luxury SUVs with sustainable interior materials. Ocean model enters production with contract manufacturer handling...
Fiverr
Technology & Marketplace
Freelance marketplace connecting buyers with gig workers offering digital services. Search algorithms match project requirements to seller portfolios,...
Honda
Automotive Manufacturing
Most automotive manufacturers placed single bets on electrification's timeline - Tesla went all-electric, Toyota doubled on hybrids, GM committed to 2...
Hostess Brands (Revived)
Food
The revived Hostess Brands succeeded by eliminating what killed the original: unionized labor, pension obligations, and nationwide distribution. The n...
Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals
Pharmaceutical
Mallinckrodt's October 2020 bankruptcy was driven by $1.6 billion in opioid litigation settlements. The company manufactured 55% of America's opioid a...
Pacific Gas and Electric
Utilities
PG&E's 2019 bankruptcy was unique: caused by wildfires ignited by the utility's own infrastructure, resulting in $30 billion in liabilities and 84 dea...
Peabody Energy
Mining
Peabody Energy's 2016 bankruptcy marked the fall of the world's largest private coal company. The company made a catastrophic bet in 2011, acquiring M...
Sea Limited
Technology & E-commerce
Sea Limited is Southeast Asia's leading internet company with three core businesses: Garena (gaming), Shopee (e-commerce), and SeaMoney (digital finan...
Shopee (Sea Limited)
E-commerce
Shopee is Southeast Asia's leading e-commerce platform, part of Sea Limited, offering C2C and B2C marketplace services. The company has grown to domin...
Whiting Petroleum
Oil & Gas
Whiting Petroleum's April 2020 bankruptcy collapsed one of the Bakken shale's largest producers. The company had been among the first to develop the B...
Xerox PARC Inventions
Technology
Xerox PARC invented the graphical user interface, mouse, ethernet, and laser printing - then watched others commercialize everything except laser prin...