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Every Tech Company That Went Bankrupt Explained in 15 Minutes!

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Published Oct 12, 2026, 3:00 PM · 1d ago

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From billion-dollar empires to courtroom disasters — the tech industry has buried some of its biggest names in spectacular fashion. This video breaks down 11 iconic tech companies that filed for bankruptcy, revealing how giants like Kodak, Nortel, and FTX collapsed under the weight of fraud, bad timing, or sheer stubbornness to adapt. Commodore gave us the home computer revolution, then lost everything to IBM clones. Iridium burned through $5 billion on satellite phones nobody asked for. Polaroid and Kodak both saw digital photography coming and still couldn’t save themselves. 3dfx once dominated PC gaming graphics before NVIDIA buried them. Napster changed music forever but forgot to pay the artists. WorldCom pulled off one of history’s largest accounting frauds at $11 billion. Nortel, once Canada’s tech crown jewel, couldn’t survive the dot-com crash. Midway Games gave us Mortal Kombat but couldn’t afford to keep making games. RadioShack watched online shopping eat its stores alive. And FTX? A $32 billion crypto empire that turned out to be pure fraud. ----------------------------------------------------------------- #TechHistory #Bankruptcy #TechCompanies
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