[rollei_list] Re: Kodak selling its film & paper divisions

  • From: Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 22:03:50 -0400

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>
>>     One of the all-time great business blunders was Kodak's refusal to
> buy Chester Carlson's patents that resulted in Xerox. Kenneth Meese said
> "Kodak is a chemical company and this is not a chemical process". This is
> right up there with Western Union's turning down Bell's telephone patents.
>
>

And Xerox invented the computer mouse and had no idea what to do with it.
Young Steve Jobs saw the invention at a Xerox research lab... he new
exactly what to do...

This is the stuff MBA candidates write their theses about...


Eric Goldstein

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