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Spotting Structural Decline Early: What Blockbuster and Kodak Have in Common

Business Analysis • Beginner Investing • 8 min

Two of the most widely taught business collapses in history share an uncomfortable detail: in both cases, people inside the company saw the disruptive threat coming, and the company still failed to react decisively in time. Kodak's own engineer, Steven Sasson, built one of the first working digital camera prototypes in 1975 — Kodak had the core disruptive technology in-house nearly two decades before digital cameras…

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