Reasons Why Companies Die

7 generic reasons here: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/299522

Talent matters and degrades due to Law of Large Numbers (LLN): https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-all-big-companies-eventually-die-jeffrey-severts/

LBS has a good set: https://www.london.edu/think/going-extinct-why-corporate-giants-die with 4 stages:

  • Maverick founder
  • Went global
  • Competition came in strong
  • Distraction

HBR’s take in 1999: https://hbr.org/1999/07/why-good-companies-go-bad

Great list from HBR

CBInsights has a list of startup deaths: https://www.cbinsights.com/research/startup-failure-reasons-top/

List from CBInsights