Mpo Bhabay turned motorcycle-taxi work into a TikTok income stream
Indonesian Gojek driver Mpo Bhabay turned everyday rides into TikTok stories, earning sponsored-video fees that helped buy a house and repay debt.
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Silicon Valley made hiring hard, so nWay kept its Bay Area base and opened a Seoul office; its team grew from 4 to 80 and Power Rangers passed 23M downloads.
Read the caseJumanji: Welcome to the Jungle turned a 1995 film into a $962M franchise
Sony rebooted the 1995 Jumanji as a comedy adventure starring The Rock; it earned $962.1M worldwide on a $90M budget and spawned a sequel.
Read the casePVR and INOX merged at the Covid trough to become India's cinema giant
Bleeding through pandemic shutdowns, India's two biggest multiplex chains merged instead of fighting, creating the world's fifth-largest cinema chain.
Read the casePeter Huntsman took over in 2000 and steered the firm through debt
Peter Huntsman became CEO in 2000, led Huntsman through defaults and restructuring, and won a $1.73 billion settlement that saved the company.
Read the caseSharing Everyday Moments With Our Daughter turned a wedding slump into 1M followers
After lockdowns and falling marriages hurt their wedding business, Pan Huqian and Jiang Xiuping became fictional parents on Douyin and drew 1M+ followers.
Read the caseCoAsia Semi trained chip designers when Vietnam could not hire enough
When Vietnam lacked enough experienced chip engineers, CoAsia Semi let Nguyen Thanh Yen build a training pipeline; he recruited 70 designers in three years.
Read the caseDiego Della Valle took his father's shoe shop and built the luxury brand Tod's
Diego Della Valle inherited his father's small shoe business in 1978 and turned the pebble-soled moccasin into the luxury group Tod's.
Read the caseStarboard's margin push led Splunk to a $28B all-cash sale to Cisco
Starboard took just under 5% of Splunk, attacked its 11% operating margin, and fourteen months later Cisco bought the company for $28 billion in cash.
Read the caseIcahn's buyback deal set up Kerr-McGee's $16.4B sale to Anadarko
Icahn and Jana won a $4B buyback from Kerr-McGee in 2005; two years later Anadarko bought it for $16.4B.
Read the caseFlowGPT turned AI voice cloning into a commercial music identity
Mauricio Bustos used AI voice cloning to turn a small Chilean YouTube audience into a viral project, then shifted FlowGPT toward original music and brand work.
Read the caseCalcey pegged salaries to dollars to survive Sri Lanka's currency crash
When rupee pay lost value and developers demanded hard currency, Calcey made a dollar-pegged salary decision to retain the people it could not afford to lose.
Read the caseCBS rebooted 1986's Matlock with Kathy Bates and made it a 16-million-viewer hit
The 2024 Matlock reboot drew 7.73M viewers to its sneak peek, was renewed after two episodes, and closed season one averaging 16.1M.
Read the caseMSC 2014: founder's son Diego Aponte took the helm and dethroned Maersk
The son took the CEO chair from his father in 2014, ordered ships through every market turn, hired Maersk's own COO, and in 2022 took the industry crown.
Read the caseCHC Helicopters left 2017 Chapter 11 with $300M in new capital and new markets
CHC's 2017 cross-border plan moved the business to a new company, added $300M from creditors, and the leaner group went on winning offshore contracts.
Read the caseXishuangbanna agents replaced dwindling footfall with livestream property sales
When quarantine erased in-person leads, agents used Douyin and Kuaishou to sell a tropical second-home market to buyers across China.
Read the caseMkhululi Siziba swapped Uber Eats for Checkers Sixty60 and bought a car
In 2020, Mkhululi Siziba left Uber Eats for better-paid Checkers Sixty60 work; he still earned more, bought a car, and added Uber Eats when fuel rose.
Read the caseNissan revived the Z nameplate in 2021 as a 400-hp sports car.
Nissan replaced the 370Z with a single-letter Z, adding 68 hp and a faster sprint to win back American sports-car fans.
Read the casePéter Zwack came home after 40 years and bought his family's liqueur back from the state
The communist state had taken the distillery; the exiled heir returned in 1987 and in 1991 redeemed the family firm with Underberg as partner.
Read the caseLyondellBasell cut debt from $24B to $7.2B in Chapter 11 and rebuilt a chemicals leader
LyondellBasell filed Chapter 11 in January 2009, emerged April 30, 2010 with $7.2B of debt versus $24B before, and by 2012 ran $45.4B of sales.
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