Observed arrival · 2026-09-27
Open Books: Business stories from the filings
A business-story project that follows company filings, debt figures, and court records to explain how familiar companies got where they are.
- For
- Readers who follow corporate financial stories
- Worth noticing
- The WeightWatchers page gives two figures for interest per $17.37 subscription: $2.50 in prose and $2.47 in its numbers section.
Field notes
The WeightWatchers episode follows a debt-funded 2012 tender offer into the company's later interest burden and 2025 bankruptcy, rather than treating Ozempic as the whole explanation. Its page names filing sources and gives a subscription-cost breakdown, though the prose says $2.50 per $17.37 went to interest while the figures section says $2.47. The project also presents stories as illustrated films and podcast episodes, and discloses that narration is synthetic and drawings are illustrative.
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