TTongaat Hulett95MeterTTongaat HulettSugarWarningBANKRUPT Meter95 of 100Its shareholders voted down a rescue plan in 2024, and the exchange now says no value is expected for them. Read the story↗︎
Learn to become a CEO · by Max Noble
The CEO Game.
Real companies, real deadlines. Call who survives before everyone else, tell the CEO what to do, and beat the other players to the top of the board.
Your rankInternWin skill levels to become Analyst
Learn to run a company.
Seven fields. Real companies, newest first. Pick one, or let the dice decide.
Make your calls on real companies below ↓
sonnen95MetersonnenHome batteriesWarningSales, 2024 vs 2023−70%Two months after Shell sold it, it filed an insolvency application. Read the story↗︎
Søren Krogh KnudsenCEO & President, ColumbusPromisedProfit margin, 20268–10%12 March 2026↗
Homeplus95Meter
Cho Joo-yeonCo-CEO, HomeplusWarningSales, 2025 vs 2024−17%Korea's big supermarket chain is being sold, store by store. Read the story↗︎
Galeria95MeterTHTilo HellenbockManaging Director, GaleriaWarningBANKRUPT Meter95 of 100Germany's department stores. Their fourth trip to bankruptcy court in six years. Read the story↗︎
Optimum Communications86Meter
Dennis MathewChairman & CEO, Optimum CommunicationsWarningSales, 2025 vs 2024−4%Its debts add up to more than $26bn, Bloomberg reports. Read the story↗︎
Sveinn SölvasonPresident & CEO, Embla MedicalPromisedSales growth, 20265–8%3 February 2026↗
GiFi95MeterPPPatrick PuyChair of the Management Board, GiFiWarningSales, 2025 vs 2024−17%513 shops, about three months of cash, and a judge who decides. Read the story↗︎
JetBlue55Meter
Joanna GeraghtyCEO, JetBlueWarningSales, 2025 vs 2024−2%Its own lenders have hired lawyers. Passengers still fly. Read the story↗︎
Ed BastianCEO, Delta Air LinesPromisedProfit per share, 2026$6.50–7.5013 January 2026↗
Casas Bahia95Meter
Renato Horta FranklinCEO, Casas BahiaWarningProfit/loss, 2025 vs 2024−186%Brazil's favourite home store asks the people it owes for one more chance. Read the story↗︎
Thames Water75Meter
Chris WestonCEO, Thames WaterWarningDebt, 2025/26 vs 2024/25+10%16 million Londoners need its water. Its lenders hold the key. Read the story↗︎
Tom van AkenCEO, AvantiumWarningSales, 2025 vs 2024−31%Plastic made from plants. Now it must raise €55 million. Read the story↗︎1 of 15
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This week’s desk
The Apprentice Desk.
Twenty players, one week. Every call, piece of advice and right answer earns XP. On Monday the top five move up a desk, and the bottom five move down. Five desks: Apprentice, Analyst, Strategist, Judge, Oracle.
- Make one call to take a seat on this week’s desk.
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Points come when the real world settles your call: a court decides, a vote is counted, a deadline passes. Go against the crowd and turn out right, and you score more. Quizzes add points on the way.
- The board fills as the first calls are settled.
Every month. The best caller wins a signed first edition of The 42 Laws of BANKRUPT, sent when the book comes out on 31 October 2027, and their name on the site.
Every year. The champion has lunch with Max Noble, announced at the Max Noble Awards.
In the book. The top 42 callers of the first year are thanked by name in The 42 Laws of BANKRUPT.
More prizes as the game grows. No purchase needed to play or to win.
The weekly BANKRUPT quiz
Five questions. One week. Beat the board.
Five questions from this week’s companies, the same for every player. Two points for each right answer, and its own leaderboard. A new quiz every Monday.
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How it works
A game you can only win by reading carefully.
Read the card
Every company is on my Warning List today. The countdown tells you what happens next, and when.
Make your call
Tap Survivor or Write-off. You can change your mind until the date arrives.
The world decides
A filing, a court ruling or a vote settles each call. Then the story moves on, and you can call the next chapter.
Score and climb
Verdict day pays big: a right call earns 100 XP times the Max Noble Odds you took. Then say how sure you are. Hunch: ×1, nothing lost if wrong. Think so: ×2, a miss costs 1.5×. Sure: ×3, a miss costs 5×. Be honest: each one pays best at its own level of certainty. One call in five is a gold bonus round, everything doubled. Twenty XP a day keeps your streak alive, with one free miss a week.
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Behind every company are people and their jobs. You call the business, never the people. Nobody here cheers a fall.
The record
Triumphs and falls.
Every settled call, in one place. The ones that came through, and the ones that did not.
Came through
- Humac2026-10-25 · Rescued. Closed on 13 August, reopened on 16 September under a new owner.
Fell
- None yet. Every fall will be recorded here, with what it meant.
A game of judgement on public information. It is not investment advice, and nothing here tells you to buy, sell or hold anything.