Dead Brands Club
By Dead Brands Club
Categories: Business, Entrepreneurship
Dead Brands Club tells the rise and fall of the brands you grew up with. Toys R Us, Woolworth, Howard Johnson's: the stores, restaurant chains and products that were everywhere, until they weren't. Each 12 to 15 minute episode digs into the business history behind the collapse: the bad bets, the debt, the bankruptcy, and what really killed them. Built from real sources like annual reports, court filings and old newspapers. New episodes every Sunday. Follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or YouTube (@DeadBrandsClub). Narrated with an AI voice (ElevenLabs).
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Recent episodes
- E01: What Really Killed Toys R Us (It Wasn't Amazon)
Everybody says Amazon killed Toys R Us. Amazon hurt, but that's not the main story. In 2005, Bain Capital, KKR and Vornado bought the chain for about $6.6 billion, mostly with borrowed money, and the debt landed on the toy store. This is the full autopsy: the supermarket for toys, Geoffrey and the…
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