Los Datway turned Cuba's platform barriers into an audience and paid gigs
Unable to use platform payments or monetization, the Cuban dance troupe improved videos and remixed music, building 40,000 Instagram followers and local deals.
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2,000 PUBLISHED CASES · REGULARLY UPDATEDCarl Icahn forced three board seats at a truck maker on the brink
Icahn and MHR, holding a fifth of Navistar, won three board seats in 2012 and pushed the truck maker onto the path that rescued it.
Read the caseTesla ramped Model Y and Shanghai through 2020 and made its first annual profit
By scaling Model Y and its Shanghai plant in 2020, Tesla grew deliveries 36% and turned its first full-year profit.
Read the caseFairfax bought Thomas Cook India from its dying parent — and the subsidiary outlived it
Thomas Cook UK sold its Indian unit to Fairfax in 2012 to service its own debt; seven acquisitions later, the Indian firm outlived its collapsed parent in 2019.
Read the caseAustria's crash-time Telekom Austria float raised €1.16bn; sell-downs totalled €2.45bn
Priced at the bottom of its range in November 2000, Austria's largest-ever IPO raised €1.16bn; later state sell-downs totalled €2.45bn.
Read the caseFatima Maada Bio turned TikTok into a 200,000-follower campaign channel
Amid economic turbulence before Sierra Leone's 2023 election, the first lady used TikTok-native videos to extend the presidential campaign to young voters.
Read the caseTim Vestey, 31, handed his debt-laden meat empire to an outsider and saved it
Owing bankers GBP 460m, Tim Vestey ceded control to an outsider; Terry Robinson cut debt and returned Union to a GBP 32.5m profit.
Read the caseFord brought the GT supercar back in 2015 as a rare Le Mans halo.
Ford revived the GT nameplate for 2016, returning an ultra-rare supercar and a Le Mans racing programme to a brand that had lost its halo.
Read the caseAdani Power's IBC buy revived Korba West's shut 600 MW plant in Raigarh
KWPCL's 600 MW unit sat dark after a generator failure; Adani Power won its IBC resolution in 2019, restarted it, and folded it into its fleet.
Read the caseBarclays raised £7.3B from Gulf investors in 2008 to dodge the bailout
Barclays chose Qatar and Abu Dhabi money over the UK state in 2008 — and returned to a £6.07B profit by 2010.
Read the caseDeddy Corbuzier left television for YouTube and built a 20M-subscriber show
Deddy Corbuzier left television for YouTube in 2020, pairing provocative interviews with a 40-person production machine to reach 20 million subscribers.
Read the caseTorani's family hired an outside GM and the flavor firm grew 18% a year for 27 years
With flat growth and no heir ready to lead, Torani's family hired an outside GM who refocused it on the café market.
Read the caseWidow Louise Pommery took over the champagne house in 1858 and invented brut in 1874
After her husband died, Louise Pommery ran the young champagne house and in 1874 launched the first dry brut style, which became the standard.
Read the caseJSW Steel revived IBC-bankrupt Bhushan Power, then sold JFE half for ₹15,750 crore
JSW bet ₹19,700 crore on Bhushan Power under India's IBC, took control in 2021, and turned a 2.75-Mt sick unit into a profitable 4.5-Mt steelmaker.
Read the caseBBVA took failed Guaranty Bank off the FDIC's hands and doubled down on Texas
In August 2009 BBVA Compass bought collapsed Guaranty Bank from the FDIC with loss-sharing, adding 164 branches in Texas and California.
Read the caseLC Sign turned factory skits into a B2B export channel
LC Sign made an export salesperson a media channel: comedic factory videos reached overseas buyers, bringing visits, orders, followers, and a new partner.
Read the caseVETS Group's Sean Rayner took over at 21 and restructured the 103-year firm
After a terminal-cancer diagnosis, the Rayner children took over VETS Group in two weeks; Sean later moved it to employee ownership.
Read the caseNetflix kept steadily building streaming through the recession and outlived Blockbuster
During the Great Recession Netflix grew subscribers and became profitable while Blockbuster's store model collapsed into bankruptcy in 2010.
Read the caseNaspers burned $100m running China internet ventures, then just bought a stake instead
A South African newspaper group that lost heavily running its own internet ventures in China put $32m into a local founder's messaging startup instead.
Read the caseICICI's 1997 universal-banking bet made it India's first universal bank by 2002
When protected project lending ended, ICICI's Kamath bet on retail, technology and universal banking; market cap rose from Rs 796 crore to Rs 37,027 crore.
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