On each episode of RIP Corp, we tell the story of one failed business, or a business failure. Join us in the dead mall of business history.
RIP Corp is a Charts & Leisure production, written and hosted by Ingrid Burrington. Produced by Meghal Janardan and Mike Rugnetta. Associate producer, Taylor Behnke. Original music and sound design from Andrew Atkin and Michael Simonelli. Fact-checking from Matt Giles. Logo design by Beatriz Lozano and illustrations by Megan Mulholland. Executive produced by Jason Oberholtzer.
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On each episode of RIP Corp, we tell the story of one failed business, or a business failure. Join us in the dead mall of business history.
RIP Corp is a Charts & Leisure production, written and hosted by Ingrid Burrington. Produced by Meghal Janardan and Mike Rugnetta. Associate producer, Taylor Behnke. Original music and sound design from Andrew Atkin and Michael Simonelli. Fact-checking from Matt Giles. Logo design by Beatriz Lozano and illustrations by Megan Mulholland. Executive produced by Jason Oberholtzer.
In March of 2001, Blockbuster and Enron abruptly terminated an exclusive 20-year agreement to deliver video-on-demand to consumers' homes, just eight months after the deal's announcement. By the end of that year Enron would enter what, at that time, was the biggest corporate bankruptcy in American history. Meanwhile, Blockbuster would spend the next decade trying, and failing, to compete with Netflix before filing for bankruptcy in 2010. Today both companies are cautionary tales, relics, punchlines in business case studies.
But the thing is, the tech worked.
RIP Corp
On each episode of RIP Corp, we tell the story of one failed business, or a business failure. Join us in the dead mall of business history.
RIP Corp is a Charts & Leisure production, written and hosted by Ingrid Burrington. Produced by Meghal Janardan and Mike Rugnetta. Associate producer, Taylor Behnke. Original music and sound design from Andrew Atkin and Michael Simonelli. Fact-checking from Matt Giles. Logo design by Beatriz Lozano and illustrations by Megan Mulholland. Executive produced by Jason Oberholtzer.
