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3M
Diversified Technology/Manufacturing
On April 1, 2024, 3M completed the spinoff of Solventum, its $8 billion healthcare business. Shareholders received one Solventum share for every four...
100 Thieves
Esports
This esports organization behaves like peacocks displaying elaborate plumage—investing heavily in branded apparel and content to signal status beyond...
10x Genomics
Biotechnology
Like a microscope that finally revealed cells, 10x Genomics tools let researchers see individual cells within tissues. Their single-cell sequencing cr...
1520
Quick Commerce
Like a peregrine falcon diving at prey, 1520 compresses delivery time to 15-20 minutes through pre-positioned micro-warehouses. Speed is everything—si...
15Five
Technology
Performance management software that mimics the continuous feedback loops in immune systems—constant small adjustments prevent catastrophic failures....
20th Century Fox
Entertainment
Film studio that purchased X-Men rights from Marvel for $2.6M (1994) and Fantastic Four rights (1986). Like Sony with Spider-Man, Fox captured the maj...
23andMe
Healthcare Services
Built a genetic database of 12 million people by offering ancestral mirrors—showing customers their past to harvest their DNA for drug discovery. Like...
24 Hour Fitness
Fitness
24 Hour Fitness' June 2020 bankruptcy collapsed America's second-largest gym chain. The company had expanded aggressively, reaching 445 clubs through...
2U
EdTech - Higher Education
Partners with universities like remora fish attached to sharks—using institutional brands for credibility while handling the operational swimming. The...
343 Industries
Gaming
Stewarding Halo is like inheriting a Sequoia grove—you don't create the majesty, you prevent fires and disease. Each new game must honor decades of fa...
365 Data Science
EdTech - Data Science Education
Education that grows like bamboo—modular lessons that stack rapidly, each building on the last. Students advance through clear segments rather than mo...
3dfx Interactive
Technology
3dfx's 2000 sale to NVIDIA ended the graphics card pioneer that created the Voodoo chipset. The company that popularized 3D gaming graphics was outman...
3M Company
Industrial Conglomerate
3M operates like a slime mold colony—thousands of independent research projects explore different directions, but successful discoveries get amplified...
4A Games
Gaming
Survives in gaming's harsh environment like antarctic icefish—small team, extreme conditions (Moscow-based through instability), yet produces Metro se...
6K Energy
Battery Materials
Produces battery materials using plasma technology like extremophile bacteria in hydrothermal vents—thriving in conditions (extreme heat) that competi...
6sense
Marketing Technology
Predicts B2B buyer intent like wolves reading prey herds—analyzing digital tracks (website visits, content downloads) to identify which targets show w...
80 Acres Farms
Vertical Farming
Indoor vertical farms that reject seasonal rhythms entirely—like antarctic icefish that evolved in extreme isolation. Every variable controlled: no we...
99
Technology
Brazil's ride-hailing app that outmaneuvered Uber through local adaptation—like invasive species that dominate by knowing the terrain. Understood paym...
9mobile
Telecommunications
Nigerian telecom fighting for survival after financial collapse—like a fire salamander regrowing limbs after predator attack. Restructuring debt, losi...