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A very long time ago (15 years maybe?) there was a great internet site (I don't remember the name anymore) which showed a graph of top ~100 largest companies in

A very long time ago (15 years maybe?) there was a great internet site (I don't remember the name anymore) which showed a graph of top ~100 largest companies in the USA, their CEOs and their boards. When expanding the graph you could basically see that the same 30 or 40 people where in the boards of major companies, from Pepi to Johnson&Johnson to Microsoft to Fox and other communication companies. It showed a really interesting picture of how really consolidated the control was at the top.

DerDangDerDang 6y ago
Wow I was surprised it was so long ago! Assuming you were thinking of theyrule - seems it’s sort of still online but requires flash http://www.theyrule.net/2001/ http://www.theyrule.net/2001/
- xtracto 6y ago
  Oh my god, yes this is it! and yes it was in Flash. I had completely forgotten about the name but clearly remembered the site. Thanks for bringing it back. EDIT: I tried to run the SWF file on Ruffle but there is no data. I can imagine that the SWF contacted some backend server to load data which is no longer available.
  - DerDangDerDang 6y ago
    Any idea if this sort of data is still available? I’m kinda sad that theyrule didn’t live on and become an institution, honestly
imgabe 6y ago
I believe it was http://theyrule.net http://theyrule.net Unfortunately, it looks like it's no longer up. You can find the home page on the Wayback machine[1] but it looks like the data was all in Flash. http://web.archive.org/web/20080901010712/http://www.theyrule.net/ http://web.archive.org/web/20080901010712/http://www.theyrul...
bndw 6y ago
I'm interested in this sort of data. Anyone know of any public APIs or indexes containing the executive teams of public companies?
ajmadesc 6y ago
Interlocking directorate
rangibaby 6y ago
Rotten.com (really) had a great tool that showed connections between people on a graph: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NNDB https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NNDB

DerDangDerDang 6y ago

Wow I was surprised it was so long ago! Assuming you were thinking of theyrule - seems it’s sort of still online but requires flash http://www.theyrule.net/2001/ http://www.theyrule.net/2001/

xtracto 6y ago
Oh my god, yes this is it! and yes it was in Flash. I had completely forgotten about the name but clearly remembered the site. Thanks for bringing it back. EDIT: I tried to run the SWF file on Ruffle but there is no data. I can imagine that the SWF contacted some backend server to load data which is no longer available.
- DerDangDerDang 6y ago
  Any idea if this sort of data is still available? I’m kinda sad that theyrule didn’t live on and become an institution, honestly

imgabe 6y ago

I believe it was http://theyrule.net http://theyrule.net Unfortunately, it looks like it's no longer up. You can find the home page on the Wayback machine[1] but it looks like the data was all in Flash. http://web.archive.org/web/20080901010712/http://www.theyrule.net/ http://web.archive.org/web/20080901010712/http://www.theyrul...

bndw 6y ago

I'm interested in this sort of data. Anyone know of any public APIs or indexes containing the executive teams of public companies?

ajmadesc 6y ago

Interlocking directorate

rangibaby 6y ago

Rotten.com (really) had a great tool that showed connections between people on a graph: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NNDB https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NNDB