▲ 271 ▼ What’s a company that objectively improved after it got “bought out?” (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ch00f@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world 261 comments fedilink hide all child comments Everyone knows the tale of Brand X getting bought out by some faceless global conglomerate and going to shit, but does the opposite ever happen?
[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (3 children) Cool, I didn't realize teams got taken over in that way, I thought it was a whole new team. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 7 points 2 years ago It's quite fun tracing some of them back - especially the frontrunners which grew put of backmarkers (though often you find the backmarkers were themselves frontrunners 20 years earlie)r. For example, Tyrrell were world champions with Jackie Stewart in the 70s, but by the mid 1990s, they were pootling around at the back of the field with Ukyo Katayama. Tyrrell became British American Racing, which became Honda Racing, which became Braun GP, which became Mercedes, who up until Red Bull's current dominance, were doing pretty well :) permalink fedilink source parent [–] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago* Yeah only Ferrari, McLaren and Williams are still driving under the name it was founded with. Haas could maybe also be counted but it was created by buying up the assets of Manor/Marussia after it collapsed, they technically didn’t buy the Marussia team. I’m not sure if it is a whole new team or if most people working for Marussia just got rehired by Haas. permalink fedilink source parent [–] jonne@infosec.pub 5 points 2 years ago It's hard to start a new team from scratch, and there's pretty much always some team that's struggling at the back, so usually it's done this way. Andretti is trying to start one from scratch tho. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 7 points 2 years ago It's quite fun tracing some of them back - especially the frontrunners which grew put of backmarkers (though often you find the backmarkers were themselves frontrunners 20 years earlie)r. For example, Tyrrell were world champions with Jackie Stewart in the 70s, but by the mid 1990s, they were pootling around at the back of the field with Ukyo Katayama. Tyrrell became British American Racing, which became Honda Racing, which became Braun GP, which became Mercedes, who up until Red Bull's current dominance, were doing pretty well :) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago* Yeah only Ferrari, McLaren and Williams are still driving under the name it was founded with. Haas could maybe also be counted but it was created by buying up the assets of Manor/Marussia after it collapsed, they technically didn’t buy the Marussia team. I’m not sure if it is a whole new team or if most people working for Marussia just got rehired by Haas. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jonne@infosec.pub 5 points 2 years ago It's hard to start a new team from scratch, and there's pretty much always some team that's struggling at the back, so usually it's done this way. Andretti is trying to start one from scratch tho. permalink fedilink source parent