Amazon revived Fallout by making the wasteland canon, not a retelling
Amazon's Fallout series reached 65M viewers in 16 days and sent players back into Bethesda's older games.
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2,000 PUBLISHED CASES · REGULARLY UPDATEDAmazon turned its internal infrastructure into AWS, a $90.8B cloud business
Amazon exposed storage and compute as web services in 2006; AWS later became its highest-margin growth engine.
Read the caseAirbus used the A320 to move from outsider to single-aisle leader
Airbus launched the A320 in 1984 to escape a wide-body niche; fly-by-wire and commonality made it the world's best-selling aircraft family.
Read the caseAdyen hired through the tech downturn and restored leverage in 2024
Adyen kept hiring in 2022–2023 to become a broader fintech platform, then slowed hiring and reached a 50% EBITDA margin in 2024.
Read the caseAD Ports turned a port operator into a listed logistics platform
AD Ports used ADQ asset transfers, new equity, and M&A to move from local ports into global logistics and maritime services.
Read the caseACWA Power used PIF backing to become a listed renewables champion
PIF's stake turned ACWA Power from a private utility developer into a national renewables platform that raised SAR 4.8bn at IPO.
Read the caseAccenture made COVID a cloud-first consulting reset
Accenture put $3B behind Cloud First in 2020; fiscal 2021 revenue hit $50.5B and bookings reached $59.3B.
Read the casePappy Van Winkle's grandson rebuilt the family bourbon without a distillery
The family distillery was sold in 1972; Julian Van Winkle III kept buying back his own barrels and built America's most coveted bourbon.
Read the caseKorea First Bank: from IMF-era bankruptcy to a $3.3bn sale to Standard Chartered
Newbridge paid about $500m for 51% of bankrupt Korea First Bank in December 1999, fixed it, and Standard Chartered bought the whole bank for $3.3bn in 2005.
Read the caseKikkoman: the heir who answered flat soy sauce demand by taking it global
Yuzaburo Mogi, scion of a founding family, spent four decades making soy sauce a world seasoning after Japan's home market stopped growing.
Read the caseEu Yan Sang: the fourth generation bought the family brand back and modernised it
A 1990 share sale put a 111-year-old medicine house under a property developer; Richard Eu and his cousins bought it back and rebuilt it as modern TCM.
Read the caseEADS: three state aerospace champions merged, then listed on three exchanges at once
DASA, Aérospatiale-Matra and CASA became EADS on 10 July 2000 — a 30% float run simultaneously on the Paris, Frankfurt and Madrid exchanges.
Read the caseHorst Brandstätter bet his family toy firm on Playmobil as plastic prices soared
A 19-year-old heir modernised a metal-toy workshop, then saved it from the oil crisis with a figure system designed to use as little plastic as possible.
Read the caseEni: Italy turned a loss-making state oil giant into a listed supermajor
Italy corporatised Eni by decree in 1992, sold about 50 subsidiaries and over $5bn of assets, cut 42,000 jobs, then listed it in 1995 in a staged sell-off.
Read the caseAn ex-governor and a 1% hedge fund reset Stillwater Mining, then sold it for $2.2B
Clinton Group and ex-governor Brian Schweitzer won four board seats at Stillwater in 2013, refocused it on Montana, and Sibanye paid $2.2B in 2017.
Read the caseCorvex told Pandora to sell itself; SiriusXM first invested $480M, then bought it
Corvex's 9.95% stake and 'show us the money' letter pushed Pandora toward a sale; SiriusXM invested $480M in 2017 and acquired it all in 2019.
Read the caseJollibee's founder gave his brother the CEO seat at 60 — global growth followed
Tony Tan Caktiong announced his exit a year ahead, groomed his brother Ernesto as COO, and JFC grew from 881 Jollibee stores to 6,600 stores in 34 countries.
Read the caseDow Chemical gave Third Point two board seats — then agreed to merge with DuPont
Dan Loeb's 2.3% stake and value-dow.com attacks forced Dow to add four directors; a year later Dow agreed to the DowDuPont merger.
Read the caseMarcato lost every seat at Deckers — and Deckers did the turnaround anyway
Deckers shareholders swept out Marcato's nominees, but the UGG maker still cut costs, closed stores and rode HOKA to record profits.
Read the caseThird Point took 7% of Baxter, got a board seat, and Baxter's margins recovered
Dan Loeb's $2B stake won Third Point a Baxter board seat and a voice in the CEO search; the new CEO lifted margins and the stock roughly doubled.
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