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Tai Lopez, the lamborghini youtube influencer, bought Radioshack? The company that once challenged Apple for the home computer market with Tandy Computers?


Yes, he bought a dead husk of a company.

After tons of internal crisises, mismanagement, and consecutive revenue losses, Radioshack got delisted from exchanges and eventually filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2015.

After that, Radioshack got acquired, got mismanaged again, the parent company went broke, and Radioshack filed for bankruptcy again in 2017.

By the time Tai Lopez got his hands on it (late 2020), there was pretty much nothing of value left there, except the brand (and even the brand was a questionable value proposition at that point tbh).




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