CB Insights

MARCH 6, 2019

A healthy culture of dissent may have helped the company focus on its product issues before they became a national scandal, but workers who raised red flags were ignored and, if they persisted, asked to leave the company. Three months later, Amazon contributed to a $50M funding round earmarked for promoting the Pets.com brand.

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

In the mid to late 1990''s, my employer, First National Bank of Maryland based in Baltimore, bought Harrisburg, Pennsylvania based Dauphin Deposit Bank. If your brand strives for assimilation, then go with it. But truth be told, MutualFirst Financial of Muncie, Indiana, the holding company for MutualBank, is publicly traded.

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CB Insights

MAY 3, 2018

After conducting research backed by DARPA — the same defense agency that helped spawn the internet — Dr. Robert Finkelstein proposed the creation of a brand new arm of the US military, a “Meme Control Center.” In internet-speak the word “meme” often refers to an amusing picture that goes viral on social media.

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