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What’s the last “bombshell scandal that would ruin a company” that actually ruined a company?

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Enron? Maybe the SBF thing? Seems like financial scandals are the only thing that matters.

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Cambridge Analytica, but only because what they were doing was so monumentally illegal. I’m sure the government would have let them get away with it if they could have thought of a way out for them. A lot of them mates were involved in that scandal.

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As a business you can be a maverick against many laws, just not the laws regarding finance.

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Unroll.me was a service that would scan your email and clean up your inbox. The New York Times reported that the company was gathering sales receipts emails, anonymizing them, and selling them to rival companies; for example Uber paid them to hand over all the sales receipts they could on Lyft rides in people’s mailboxes. The bad press made them eventually sell the company to Slice, mainly for the email archives they amassed.

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Slice like… the pizza website?

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That’s what I assumed too but it appears to be a package tracking website

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