Pinduoduo: WeChat group-buying to a $240B IPO in three years — then Temu
From 2015 WeChat group-buying to a 2018 $240B Nasdaq IPO, billion-subsidies for brands (2019) and Temu (2022): revenue ¥394B by 2024.
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2,000 PUBLISHED CASES · REGULARLY UPDATEDLi Yunfeng took over Do-Fluoride from his father after a 20-year grooming
Li Shijiang, 76, handed Do-Fluoride to son Li Yunfeng in Dec 2025 as it swung to profit; Li Yunfeng had led the lithium-hexafluoride breakthrough.
Read the caseCorning revived a shelved glass formula after the telecom bust gutted fiber demand
The telecom crash sank Corning's fiber business into billions in losses, so it pulled a scratch-resistant glass off the shelf and sold it as Gorilla Glass.
Read the caseDollarama went public at the top of range in 2009 and repaid its debt
Dollarama priced its October 2009 IPO at C$17.50, raised about C$300M to repay buyout-era debt, and grew to C$1.86B sales by fiscal 2013.
Read the caseMosacat turned a water complaint into a Google data-center suspension
After finding that Google's Santiago project could divert over 7 billion liters a year, Mosacat demonstrated and helped trigger a 2024 tribunal suspension.
Read the caseVictoria's Secret traded Cultural-Wilderness agony for a 47% single-day pop
Hillary Super took over a brand in its cultural wilderness in 2024. Two years later sales jumped 15% — and the stock soared 47% in a single day.
Read the caseThe Hinduja brothers fought over $11bn in court and the group never split
A fight over their 2014 shared-ownership letter reached the High Court in 2020 — mediation and the patriarch's death in 2023 closed it without a split.
Read the caseBenelli's TRK 502 made a 1911 Italian brand Italy's top-selling motorcycle marque
Chinese owner Qianjiang kept design in Pesaro, built in China, and the TRK 502 made Benelli the No. 1 motorcycle brand in Italy by 2022.
Read the caseNongfu Spring won China's bottle-water war by refusing to sell pure water
A 2000 'natural water vs pure water' gamble made Nongfu Spring China's bottled-water leader by 2012; the HK$446B 2020 IPO and ¥42.9B 2024 revenue followed.
Read the caseWolfspeed shed 70% of its debt in Chapter 11 and kept its silicon carbide lead
Wolfspeed filed for Chapter 11 in 2025, cut debt ~70%, kept its 200mm silicon carbide footprint, and exited self-funded to serve AI, EV and energy markets.
Read the caseBoeing shut down its own assembly lines for a month to fix a supply chain it had outrun
Boeing ramped production faster than suppliers could keep up, forcing a $1.6b charge and a month-long shutdown of two lines. It rebuilt around lean methods.
Read the caseKorea's first chaebol proxy war: KCGI lost the board but won a 100% stake yield
Fund KCGI and allies took on the Cho family at Hanjin KAL, lost the March 2020 AGM vote, then exited their 17.41% stake to Hoban for ~₩690bn in 2022.
Read the caseNazifi Isa Muhammad and Mubarak Muhammad changed their TikTok act after jail
After 11 days in jail over a satirical video, Kano creators Nazifi and Mubarak dropped political and religious topics and began cooperating with Hisbah.
Read the caseWhite Rabbit turned a 1959 milk candy into a lifestyle brand via 2019 collabs
Guanshengyuan lent its 60-year-old White Rabbit candy to perfume, lip balm and milk tea collabs — and four-hour queues made the old brand young again.
Read the caseMargiela: Rosso handed the anonymous house to a disgraced showman and doubled revenue
OTB hired John Galliano — exiled since his 2011 Dior firing — to lead Maison Margiela in 2014; in five years the cult label's revenues doubled to €200 million.
Read the caseNintendo's $59.99 NES Classic mini-console sold 2.3M units in five months
Nintendo relaunched its 1985 NES as a mini-console with 30 games on Nov 11, 2016; it sold out, shipped 2.3M units by April 2017, and spawned the SNES Classic.
Read the caseDeliveroo: from London's worst IPO flop to its first annual profit in 2024
After a disastrous 2021 IPO, Deliveroo CEO Will Shu quit loss-making markets and cut costs, delivering the company's first annual profit in 2024.
Read the caseAMD bet its chips on high-performance Ryzen and turned losses into a 26% jump
Lisa Su cut AMD down to a high-performance CPU and GPU bet; Ryzen brought a 26% revenue jump and its first real profit in years.
Read the caseMicron kept spending on new chip technology while memory prices collapsed around it
Memory chip prices crashed after the dot-com bust and Micron posted back-to-back losses. It bought a rival's DRAM plant and kept investing in newer chips.
Read the caseMasraf Al Rayan absorbed al khaliji to become Qatar's second-largest bank
In a 2.5-million-person market served by some 20 lenders, Qatar's Islamic banks consolidated: a QAR 8.2bn share swap created a US$47bn-asset challenger
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