There a lot of companies who have not grabbed opportunities or not innovated enough in their space .Which company is the worst offender of this ?
Nokia totally messed up by not jumping on Android train.
Real answer is Sears when it could’ve crushed Amazon and remained the everything store during the online transition
Point taken but Amazon net profit of e-commerce is not what makes it what it is today it’s definitely AWS .
Sure but who’s to say sears wouldn’t have seen the same need to support it’s vast online traffic? Sears was very into vertical monopolies and diversification. They just refused to adapt
Recently? Google. Databricks and Snowflake SHOULD NOT EXIST. Google has had equivalent and in many cases superior solutions to the same problems internally for years. They just sucked beyond believe and turning it into products.
Yahoo not buying Google or Facebook. The internet could be a very different place than today.
IBM could have OWNED all of analytics and been number 2 in cloud. They bought the number 2 player in cloud behind Amazon, Softlayer. Understood that their biggest competitor would be Azure. But damn they were going to borrow and buyback shares and not invest. Nice job Sal and Ginny. They had a storage and compute separated cloud product dashDB in 2015 well before SF and DB were viable orgs for most buyers). Tried and failed to buy Tableau before it went public. This was in addition to being a leader and the biggest name attached to Spark when it had its coming out party (Databricks was an Itty bitty startup, now its worth likely 20%-30% of IBM). Bought the best HW for analytic workloads, Neteeza, and neutered it for DB2. Oh and they had THE brand for analytics, Watson. I have nothing but disgust for what IBM squandered on that opportunity. They also have the gall to have the two guys most responsible for that failure as the head of the company and an SVP now.
All these companies not copying AWS even though they had all resources
Worst has to be Cisco ..they had everything the hardware , software and back in 2010 the talent too but just not the strategy and the risk appetite. Even the collaboration product they are great at Webex was overtaken by a small company like Zoom .