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nradovyesterday at 3:32 PM1 replyview on HN

Look to history. Here's a list of "Fortune 7" companies from about 50 years ago.

IBM

AT&T

Exxon

General Motors

General Electric

Eastman Kodak

Sears, Roebuck & Co.

Some of them died. Others are still around but no longer in the top 7. Why is that? Eventually every high-growth company misses a disruptive innovation or makes a key strategic error.


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skeptic_aiyesterday at 7:28 PM

What I meant is they can kill people and still survive. So how much bad things they need to do to be shut down?

Kill 100 people? 100000? So seems as long as the lawsuit is less than what they can afford they will survive. Which is crazy.

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