RIP Corp

About RIP Corp

On each episode of RIP Corp, we tell the story of one failed business, or a business failure. Join us in the dead mall of business history. RIP Corp is a Charts & Leisure production, written and hosted by Ingrid Burrington. Produced by Meghal Janardan and Mike Rugnetta. Associate producer, Taylor Behnke. Original music and sound design from Andrew Atkin and Michael Simonelli. Fact-checking from Matt Giles. Logo design by Beatriz Lozano and illustrations by Megan Mulholland. Executive produced by Jason Oberholtzer.

Publisher

Charts & Leisure

Category

business · history · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

7 Oct 2020

Latest episode

8 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

2 of 23 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   8 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   What's The Deal With Delaware?

   RIP Corp host Alex Blumberg interviews Delaware legal expert Professor Sarah Jones about the state's unique corporate law and its impact on residents.

2. 

   15 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Money Perverts: The Death of Retirement

   This episode of RIP Corp is not a story about the death of a company or a specific person. It’s a story about the death of retirement, killed by companies and governments. It’s also very much the story of venture capital.

3. 

   30 Dec 2025

   2025 Corporate In Memorium

   The whole RIP Corp crew assembles to look back at the highlights of 2025 corporate loss and chart a path through the first ever saddest-RIP-of-the-year bracket.

Inside a recent episode

What's The Deal With Delaware?

Published 8 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So in the late 19th century, there's a boom in the number of corporations used for different purposes, not just transportation and banking, which had been what corporations in America, you know, business corporations primarily were, but corporations for all kinds of industrial purposes. […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

33 ratings

Spotify

4.4 / 5

14 ratings

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