Solyndra - Failure Museum

Solyndra

Solyndra, founded in 2005 by former employees of Applied Materials, offered a novel alternative: cylinders coated in sunlight-absorbing chemicals. The tubes were lighter than polysilicon-based panels and potentially easier to install. The company ...

Hooli - Failure Museum

Hooli

In 2014, Hooli was formed on the HBO show Silicon Valley. Hooli lost a major court battle to Pied Piper, which leads to the dissolution of a division of Hooli. What was left of Hooli became part of Pied Piper. Pied Piper was dissolved, so Hooli ...

Cocaine Energy Drink - Failure Museum

Cocaine Energy Drink

Released in 2007, this energy drink was pulled from shelves in the US because of its suggestive name. The FDA decided that Cocaine was “illegally marketing the drink as both a street drug alternative and a dietary supplement.” The drink is still sol ...

Ford Edsel - Failure Museum

Ford Edsel

Built in 1957, Ford invested $400 million in development, manufacturing, and marketing of the Edsel. Ford believed that the Edsel was the "car of the future." However, once it was unveiled to the public, it failed so badly to appeal to the consume ...

White Sox 2024 - Failure Museum

Chicago White Sox 2024

The 2024 Chicago White Sox had the most losses, 121, of any Major League Baseball team in modern-day history finishing the season 80 games below .500 and 51.5 games out of first place. They scored the fewest runs of any team in the past 50 years ...

Philadelphia A's - Failure museum

Philadelphia A’s

The 1916 Philadelphia A's achieved a record of 36 wins against 117 losses making them the poorest performing team in MLB history with a .235 winning percentage.

1961 Philadelphia Phillies. - Failure Museum

1961 Philadelphia Phillies

The 1961 Philadelphia Phillies season was the 79th in franchise history. The Phillies finished the season in last place in the National League at 47–107, 46 games behind the NL Champion Cincinnati Reds. The team lost 23 games in a row, the most in M ...

1962 NY Mets - Failure Museum

1962 New York Mets

The 1962 New York Mets season was the first regular season for the Mets. They went 40–120 (.250) and finished tenth and last in the National League, 60+1⁄2 games behind the NL Champion San Francisco Giants, who had once called New York home. The M ...

Boo.com - Failure Museum

Boo.com

Founded in 1998, Boo.com wanted become the largest online sports e-retailer in the world, planning to set up stores in both Europe and America simultaneously. The company spent $135M in venture capital in just 18 months and went out of business in ...

Titanic - Failure Museum

Titanic

The Titanic was a British ocean liner that sank on April 15, 1912 as a result of striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southhampton, England to New York City. 1496 of the 2224 passengers died making it the deadliest sinking of a single ship ...