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If you scroll down and look at the 'The Team', you'll see it's two guys Alex Mehr and Tai Lopez. They bought the Radio Shack brand a couple of years ago: https:

• alphabet9000 5y ago
  Update: 'The Team' section was removed from the site.
• pdq 5y ago
  It's savvy but pretty scammy, as people will assume the businesses are still alive, when they are just shell fronts, using the prior logo/branding/domain names. Here's Tai's parent company and their purchased brands: https://www.retailecommerceventures.com/ https://www.retailecommerceventures.com/ Some big ones that I recall going to back in the day are Radio Shack, Pier1, Stein Mart, and Linens N Things.
  • ghaff 5y ago
    Old brands pretty much never die. I haven't seen one recently but for a time I was getting public relations pitches for RCA-branded devices that were clearly some generic Chinese knockoff things.
    • jacquesm 5y ago
      Ditto MG.
• oh_sigh 5y ago
  About 5 years ago literally everyone was being bombarded with youtube ads by tai lopez, where he is in his garage showing off a lambo and talking about how books are his most prized possession
• justinsaccount 5y ago
  Tai Lopez is the "here in my garage" douchbag https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/here-in-my-garage https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/here-in-my-garage
  • MrMember 5y ago
    It did result in one of the best YouTube poops of all time so there's that at least. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0GIwTG8V-Ko https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0GIwTG8V-Ko
    • sillysaurusx 5y ago
      I had such a hard time deciding whether to vouch this comment. But if the knowyourmeme page is on topic, then surely linking to this video (which that page links to) is also on topic. It's also interesting that such an influential brand is now owned by a random rich person. I never thought that my childhood hideout would become a punchline. The only way to make it better would be to add a little intro to the video like "At RadioShack, garages are important to us. That's why we've decided to invest in 47 new lambos that we bought with our RADIO tokens..." What a sad ending for the only electronics shop in town. My friend and I used to hang out there after school and try to build logic gates and simple counters. Uno reverse card: Tai Lopez uses the funds from this to rebuild electronics shops across the world, and becomes a household hero for nerds everywhere. Since this outcome is so weird, that outcome suddenly seems not-impossible.
• colecut 5y ago
  Tai Lopez is the master of flexing in front of books he hasn't read, cars he doesn't own, women he paid to be there..
• er4hn 5y ago
  My first thoughts were: This is a scam, I'm on a page spelled almost like "radioshack.com" Then: The old radioshack page has let their domain lapse and been taken over. Then: Ah, Tai Lopez, the only man I've ever known to keep his bookcases in the garage, like a set of house tools. On a side note, on Tai Lopez's head shot the man in the lower right facing the camera looks like he's realized this motivational talk is going nowhere.
• Rickthedick 5y ago
  Zoosk is a total scam dating app. I don't trust that guy