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LeBron James is probably the most durable athlete of all time. He’s been playing at a superstar level for 17 years now, and shows no signs of slowing down. So how does LeBron stay in such good shape? Why Lebron James Spends $1.5 Million on His Body By the end of his 2020 deal with the Lakers, Lebron James will become the highest paid NBA player ever with more than 350 million dollars in career earnings. Of course Lebron is not keeping all this money under the mattress. He happens to be an extremely successful investor with stake ownership in…
Something a lot of people don’t know is that Minecraft recently surpassed Tetris and has become the number one game ever sold with over 200 million sales. To put that into perspective the most purchased album of all time is Michael Jackson’s Thriller with 66 million copies, yeah Minecraft has tripled that making Notch from just one successful game rise from a game developer with other companies to a billion-dollar celebrity. Minecraft Case Study I’m nowhere near the first person to cover, this but all the documentaries talk about the game’s success YouTubers are just the evolution. But something that I like to do…
Imagine having the power to cause a company’s value to tumble by a fortune. That’s the case with a select group of celebrities with a simple comment on social media or a gesture at a press event. Some of these famous faces have been able to cost a firm billions of dollars when their stock value drops massively. In this article, we’re going to look at the most expensive instances when this has happened. We have football/soccer icon Cristiano Ronaldo with Coca-Cola, Kylie Jenner with snapchat, Elon Musk and Tesla, Donald Trump with a couple of companies and more. So…
American Express: The most prestigious of all the credit cards. Visa, MasterCard everybody has those, but only a select few have American Express. Here I’ll prove it. In 2019 there were over 3.3 billion visa cards out there, over 2 billion mastercards and only 114 million American Express cards. That is a big difference. How American Express is so successful? There’s 29 visa cards and 17 mastercards for every one American Express. And that’s because they’re not as concerned with volume, in fact they do a lot of things differently. For example, visa and MasterCard are issued by banks, whereas…
In this article, we’re going to talk about MAN Company. How a successful company of its time, failed miserably? Why Man Trucks Failed What was the reason for their breakdown and what made MAN company left India? Timeline of the Man Trucks and Buses in India 2003 This was in 2003, India’s one of the biggest automobile company Force motors who manufactured minibuses and mini trucks. Force decided to step into the Heavy vehicles segment and to manufacture big trucks too. The idea was great at that time, but Force also knew that it will not be easy for them…
What is Vijay Shekhar Sharma’s business and revenue model that helped them get close to half a billion dollars in revenue? Paytm Business Model | Paytm Revenue Model | How Does Paytm Make Money?
Not too long ago before the word start-up was coined, business was about making money, it was about profits. India’s loss making startups See business used to be a lot simpler than it is today. You built something, you sold that something, you made money from that sale and then you used that money to grow your company, so that you could build more of that something and sell more of that something and so on and so forth. It was a cycle. It was predictable and reliable and consistent. But that’s not the way that business works anymore, at least not for start-ups. Today we can take replace it…
In the past few years, the leaps being made in our entire global economic system are quicker and larger than ever. Not many economists or tech experts can answer with confidence how they envision the economy 20 years from today. As new technologies are prevailing, new horizons are being tapped and new industries are being shaped that we never thought of until recently. Being able to forecast these changes will be the most critical factor in your decision to pursue a certain career or invest in one industry or the other. That’s why we thought we should imagine together which…
The Timberland company’s classic, yellow boot is cemented in the memories of hip-hop fans and outdoorsmen alike. Timberland Success Story While Timberland’s profits increased dramatically at the height of its popularity in the ’90s, the brand seemed to struggle with just how big of an impact the hip-hop community had on its bottom line. How the Timberland boot became a Hip-Hop Icon {Timeline} The Abington Shoe Company was founded in 1933, supplying unbranded shoes to distributors across the U.S. In 1973, the company decided to create a waterproof, Nubuck leather boot that could withstand the harsh New England elements. They…
These are Crocs. And a lot of people think they’re really ugly. People who love to hate Crocs had cause to celebrate in 2008 when investors were writing the company off as a passing fad. Crocs lost over $185 million that year and cut about 2,000 jobs. The stock plunged to just over $1 a share from a high of about $69 a year earlier. But over the next decade, Crocs would go on to sell over 700 million pairs of shoes worldwide. Recently, the clogs have been strutting down runways at luxury fashion shows. Celebrities like Justin Bieber, Ariana…