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26 Complete Face Plants on the Road to Success

October 09, 2023

You gotta hand it to these losers — they kept moving forward after failing spectacularly, publicly and sometimes irreversibly. And after these all-time blunders, that’s no small feat. Maybe this is a good lesson for the rest of us poor schlubs who just keep winning. If, by some impossible-to-foresee stroke of terrible luck, some less-than-perfect idea ever does set you back a step on the road to success, no big deal, just keep walkin’.

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Reebok Bacon

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Snapchat lost around $800 million in stock after running an ad on their platform for the mobile game Would You Rather? which mocked Rihanna's abuse. Would You Rather? Imposable Chocolat WOULD YOU RATHER! Slap Rihanna Punch Chris Brown Many users deleted the app following PLAY her response. CRACKED.COM — Source

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GUCCI It's difficult to understand how anyone involved in production failed to see that this $890 turtleneck balaclava screamed... BLACKFACE! After social media exploded with outrage, Gucci apologized and pulled the sweater off the market. GRACKED.COM — Source

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Stick with what you know, Ludacris! After his Asian-fusion restaurant Straits failed in 2012, he opened Chicken-n- Beer (named after his 2003 album) at the Atlanta airport in November 2016. ASTRINI It's still going strong. CRACKED — Source

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Jessica Biel had a kids restaurant that excluded kids. Biel opened Au Fudge in 2016, with the idea of being a Soho House for kids. The exclusivity thing wasn't a good influence for kids, so she scrapped that. As simply a family restaurant, the staff sued her for missing wages, and it closed in 2018. CRACKED — Source

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Steven Spielberg served subs... in a sub! Get it? The highest-grossing director of all time opened two locations of Dive! (a submarine-themed sub sandwich restaurant). The over-priced, mediocre food saw them close within a few years. CRACKED — Source

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Justin Timberlake got out before the literal s*** storm. Destino was an Italian eatery in Midtown Manhattan that opened in 2006. Luckily, Timberlake left the business before it was shut down in 2013, when illegal sewage pipes above the restaurant burst and covered the place in human waste... twice! CRACKED — Source

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Trump Steaks

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CRACKED ELON MUSK Elon Musk's net worth has dropped $9 billion since buying Twitter, and he is now facing a number of financial challenges in owning the company. — Source

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CRACKED JEFF BEZOS Pets.com was an ambitious online pet store that was funded by Amazon and had a sock puppet mascot, but it failed miserably due to its high advertising costs and inability to generate revenue. — Source

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CRACKED GD RTUNY ORT RTU WARREN BUFFETT Warren Buffett's rise to success with Berkshire Hathaway was not without its mistakes; he regrets not tendering his shares when Seabury Stanton tried to buy them back at a lower price, and he also regrets buying Berkshire's stock at a high price and combining National Indemnity Company with Berkshire Hathaway, which cost him an estimated $100 billion. — Source

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CRACKED JIM CRAMER Jim Cramer learned a valuable lesson from his experience investing in Memorex Telex in the 1990s, which resulted in a complete loss of his investment: when investing in a low-priced stock, you can still lose everything. Не now advises investors to never ask how much can I lose? when considering a stock. — Source

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CRACKED BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO Deli BLOCKBUSTER John Antioco's arrogance in September 2000 cost Blockbuster its future when he refused to consider the possibility of buying Netflix for $50 million, which could have saved the company from its eventual bankruptcy in 2014. — Source

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The Premier

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Dome Homes

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Turbine A 63 AMP'D 263 Co Hondensator MOBILE SOLA MOTOROL - com No. BLV CRACKED.COM Amp'd invented the first entertainment phone years before Apple. And they were so keen to get subscribers that they gave contracts to everyone ... till it turned out customers couldn't pay, and Amp'd went out of business. 8 — Source

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Flying Cars

FLYING CARS SOLK 3218 fe CRACKED.COM Henry Ford had a plan for cheap, easy-to-use, personal planes everyone can own. A plane in every driveway! Then his prototype (avoidably) crashed during a test flight, and Ford scrapped the whole idea. HA 8 — Source

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