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29 companies
Renault
Automotive
French automaker that formed the groundbreaking Renault-Nissan alliance in 1999, investing $5.4B for a 36.8% stake in near-bankrupt Nissan. Under Carl...
Royal FloraHolland
Agriculture / Floriculture
Royal FloraHolland exemplifies niche partitioning and cooperative infrastructure. The world's largest flower auction, housed in a 12 million square fo...
Ratner's Group
Retail/Jewelry
Ratner's Group was Britain's largest jewelry retailer with 2,500 stores and £1.2 billion revenue when CEO Gerald Ratner gave a speech at the Institute...
Reliance Industries
Conglomerate (Energy, Petrochemicals, Retail, Telecom)
India's largest conglomerate with ₹9 trillion (~$110 billion) revenue, demonstrating vertical integration as fractal depth. Rather than horizontal bra...
Roche Holding AG
Pharmaceuticals/Diagnostics
Roche invests $15+ billion annually in R&D - approximately 30% of revenue, among the highest in any industry. The Swiss pharmaceutical giant maintains...
Rakuten, Inc.
E-commerce & Technology
Rakuten is Japan's largest e-commerce platform and operates a diverse ecosystem of internet services including fintech, digital content, and communica...
Reckitt
Consumer Goods
Reckitt is a global consumer health and hygiene company producing brands such as Dettol, Lysol, Durex, Strepsils, and Enfamil, operating in over 60 co...
Red Bull
Beverages
Red Bull created and dominates energy drink category through marketing-first vertical integration. Mutualistic networks where media attracts audiences...
Red Hat
Enterprise Software
Red Hat proved that free software could generate billions in revenue - not by restricting code, but by packaging chaos into certainty. The company tak...
Social Media
Reddit is a social news aggregation platform organized into thousands of communities covering every topic.
RELX
Information Services
RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers in scientific, technical, medical,...
Research In Motion (BlackBerry)
Mobile Technology
RIM/BlackBerry serves as the cautionary tale of staying at depleted patches too long. In 2007, BlackBerry dominated enterprise email with eventual pea...
Revolut
Financial Services/Fintech
European fintech company founded in 2015 by Nikolay Storonsky (former Credit Suisse derivatives trader) and Vlad Yatsenko after Storonsky was charged...
Rheinmetall
Defense
Rheinmetall is a leading German defense and automotive technology company, providing military equipment, defense systems, and automotive components.
Rightmove
Technology
Rightmove is the UK's largest online property portal. The platform lists properties from estate agents and developers across the country. It dominates...
Rio Tinto
Mining
Global mining corporation founded in 1873, demonstrating 150 years of survival through commodity price cycles. The company exemplifies counter-cyclica...
Riot Platforms
Cryptocurrency Mining
Bitcoin mining company operating large-scale mining facilities focused on building the lowest cost production. Develops and operates infrastructure fo...
Ritz-Carlton
Hospitality
Luxury hotel chain that signals service quality through the $2,000 employee empowerment allowance - any employee can spend up to $2,000 to solve a cus...
Rivian
Automotive - Electric Vehicles
Rivian is an electric vehicle manufacturer focused on adventure trucks and SUVs, with Amazon as largest shareholder.
Ro
Healthcare
Direct-to-consumer telehealth company offering online diagnosis and prescription services. Started with men's health, expanded to broader healthcare c...
Robinhood
Financial Services/Fintech
American financial services company cited as example of business model contradicting stated mission. Markets itself as 'democratizing finance' but mak...
Roblox
Gaming Platform
Roblox operates gaming platform with multi-sided network effects. More players attract more developers in exponential feedback loops with platform eco...
Roku
Streaming Platform
Roku provides streaming platform with two-sided network effects. Platform economics create high-margin advertising with first-mover advantage.
Rolex
Luxury Watches
Swiss luxury watchmaker that exemplifies intrasexual competition dynamics. Originally positioned as tool watches for explorers (Edmund Hillary's 1953...
Rolls-Royce
Aerospace
British aerospace company that pioneered 'Power by the Hour' (PbH) - a revolutionary outcome-based service model representing organizational mutualism...
RTX Corporation
Aerospace & Defense
RTX combines aerospace and defense through vertical integration of engines, avionics, and weapons systems. Economies of scale in military contracts an...
RWE
Energy
RWE is a leading European utility company focused on renewable energy generation including offshore and onshore wind, solar, and hydroelectric power.
Ryanair
Airlines
Irish budget airline cited in the chapter as an example of convergent evolution among budget carriers. Ryanair, Spirit, and Southwest all converge on...
Ryohin Keikaku Co., Ltd. (Muji)
Retail & Consumer Goods
Ryohin Keikaku operates the Muji brand, known for its minimalist, no-brand quality goods philosophy. The company offers a wide range of products from...