RIP Corp

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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.

  1. Walk On The Blade: The Marc Rich & Co Commodities Story

    26 DE JUN.

    Walk On The Blade: The Marc Rich & Co Commodities Story

    This episode of RIP Corp is a look at the commodity trading industry through the history of Marc Rich, the company, and about the tension of telling an industry’s history through its most infamous guy. Was Marc Rich the exception that makes the rest of the industry look bad or the rule who just happened to get caught? How does his style of trading live on today, and what does that legacy tell us about commodity trading more broadly? And how on earth does a guy—how on earth does an industry—intersect with so many major geopolitical events and still insist that the work is “not political”?

    43min
  2. Capitalism Quest: The Sierra Online Story

    20 DE MAR.

    Capitalism Quest: The Sierra Online Story

    This episode of RIP Corp is about the gap between the nostalgic personal memory of Sierra On-Line and the labor and financial calculations that ultimately shaped the company’s rise and fall. What can the Sierra story tell us, if anything, about how the game industry works today?

    41min
  3. 2023 Corporate In Memoriam

    28/12/2023

    2023 Corporate In Memoriam

    Corporate researcher, and proprietor of The Trade Journal Cooperative, Tim Hwang joins Ingrid for a nostalgic look back at 2023's notable corporate losses.

    23min
  4. $2500 and a Dream: Fansteel and the History of Tantalum

    13/12/2023

    $2500 and a Dream: Fansteel and the History of Tantalum

    The history of the commercial application of tantalum is a story of labor exploitation, suppressing militant organizing, state-backed development of global supply chains, the ups and downs of corporate raider capitalism, environmental damage and legal chicanery. It’s a story of technological development deeply bound up with, and used to perpetuate colonial violence. And it might have something to tell us about the current era of mineral supply chain anxieties in the United States. Our research into the history of the tantalum capacitor brought us to the U.S. National Archives, old electronics magazine collections, eBay, and ultimately to the subject of this episode: Fansteel

    50min
  5. RIP Docs: The Vice Bankruptcy

    13/09/2023

    RIP Docs: The Vice Bankruptcy

    We invited Katie Way, a former Vice reporter and current writer-editor at Hell Gate, a worker-owned news site in New York City, to help us through a deep dive into Vice's bankruptcy documents.

    22min
  6. Little Paper Guys: An Overview of Corporate Personhood

    16/08/2023

    Little Paper Guys: An Overview of Corporate Personhood

    For this episode of RIP Corp, we’re looking at corporate personhood as a concept. How did corporations become people? How did this weird legal fiction become such a powerful defining force in the world? And what would it really mean for a corporation to subvert its Prime Directive ... if that’s even possible.

    28min
  7. The Story of This Town is Failure: Fairchild Semiconductor and Its Children

    08/06/2023

    The Story of This Town is Failure: Fairchild Semiconductor and Its Children

    For this episode of RIP Corp, we take a closer look at Fairchild Semiconductor, a pioneer in the manufacturing of transistors and integrated circuits. After its well-documented breakthroughs, the company that helped invent an entire industry, and arguably the single most technologically significant one in the 20th century, failed to remain competitive. We explore how the way we understand Fairchild’s story (or don’t) matters for how we think about the past, present, and future of chip manufacturing.

    47min
  8. Why Do We Keep Dead Company Merch?

    12/10/2022

    Why Do We Keep Dead Company Merch?

    This episode of RIP Corp is about the afterlives of corporate merch—as a collector's item, as nostalgia play, as irony-laden artifact representing the hubris of capitalism—and the ways people live with these artifacts and the legacies attached to them. It's also about RIP Corp having merch now! Sorry. Please check out the wonderful designs by Beatriz Lozano and Megan Mulholland, and consider expressing brand loyalty on your person: ripcorp.threadless.com

    20min
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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.

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  • Criado por
    Charts & Leisure
  • Anos de atividade
    2020 - 2024
  • Episódios
    16
  • Classificação
    Explícito
  • Copyright
    © 2020 — Charts & Leisure
  • Site do podcast
    RIP Corp

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