Kodak didn't lose because the technology overwhelmed them. They invented the core technology and then suffocated it to protect film margins. Steve Sasson built the first digital camera at Kodak in 1975. They held the patents. They had the engineers. They had the brand. They had everything.
And they chose the incumbent's logic — protect the existing revenue stream — right up until the stream dried up completely.
All this carrying-on about how "AI will do to us what digital did to Kodak" you can say — yes, exactly, and Kodak's mistake wasn't that they faced the disruption, it was that they owned the disruption and buried it.
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