{"id":9453,"date":"2023-03-29T05:37:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T03:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/29\/wework-mugs-for-500-10-of-the-strangest-merch-items-from-companies-that-crashed\/"},"modified":"2023-03-29T05:37:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T03:37:51","slug":"wework-mugs-for-500-10-of-the-strangest-merch-items-from-companies-that-crashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/29\/wework-mugs-for-500-10-of-the-strangest-merch-items-from-companies-that-crashed\/","title":{"rendered":"WeWork mugs for $500: 10 of the strangest merch items from companies that crashed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FTX fortune cookies and Theranos gift cards offer souvenirs from recent business disasters<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve just been laid off from your job at a once mighty startup that was going to change the world. The New York Times has exposed your CEO\u2019s fraudulent business model. Investors have freaked. The stock market is hemorrhaging. Your office keycard doesn\u2019t work. What you do next is very important: <em>go raid the merch closet.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By now, we\u2019ve all seen enough rise-and-fall documentaries to know how this sort of thing plays out. First come layoffs, then lawsuits, and perhaps a prison sentence for bosses like Theranos\u2019s Elizabeth Holmes or Enron\u2019s Jeffrey Skilling. One thing we hear less about: the killer resale market that comes with an era-defining financial disaster.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/mar\/29\/theranos-ftx-merch-swag-ebay\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/22a3a7af5ba60925d20cd4907d0568a01f811ff8\/0_174_3798_2280\/master\/3798.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c60a1fd3340b3c3984b8756cd69ea093\" title=\"WeWork mugs for $500: 10 of the strangest merch items from companies that crashed\" \/>FTX fortune cookies and Theranos gift cards offer souvenirs from recent business disasters<br \/>\nYou\u2019ve just been laid off from your job at a once mighty startup that was going to change the world. The New York Times has exposed your CEO\u2019s fraudulent business model. Investors have freaked. The stock market is hemorrhaging. Your office keycard doesn\u2019t work. What you do next is very important: go raid the merch closet.<br \/>\nBy now, we\u2019ve all seen enough rise-and-fall documentaries to know how this sort of thing plays out. First come layoffs, then lawsuits, and perhaps a prison sentence for bosses like Theranos\u2019s Elizabeth Holmes or Enron\u2019s Jeffrey Skilling. One thing we hear less about: the killer resale market that comes with an era-defining financial disaster. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FTX fortune cookies and Theranos gift cards offer souvenirs from recent business disasters You\u2019ve just been laid off from your job at a once mighty startup that was going to change the world. The New York Times has exposed your CEO\u2019s fraudulent business model. Investors have freaked. The stock market is hemorrhaging. Your office keycard &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/29\/wework-mugs-for-500-10-of-the-strangest-merch-items-from-companies-that-crashed\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WeWork mugs for $500: 10 of the strangest merch items from companies that crashed<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9453"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}