If your intention is to learn how to create or identify successful companies in the future, then yes, absolutely. You want to know what is different between successful companies and failed ones.
And there are plenty of articles and blog posts & etc online all the time about such cases, I know I've read many of them. so I don't really understand why this particular article is up for particular criticism, as though JLG has a personal obligation to correct a perceived bias in the internet. The whole premise of this criticism just seems bizarre.
