This list is opened by the very well-known company Apple, which made a rather unfortunate decision when it sold the license for the window interface for Microsoft Windows 1.0, but refused to sell the license for MacOS, which Bill Gates himself offered them to do. Now MacOS could be the standard operating system for personal computers - but Apple's management decided that their system will beat everyone anyway, so there is no point in licensing it.
At one time, Intel also made a significant mistake, because it refused an agreement with Apple to manufacture processors for the iPhone, as it underestimated the volume of expected production and decided that it would not bring them profit.
The management of the well-known web resource mySpace in 2005 had the opportunity to buy Facebook for $ 75 million, but they did not take advantage of this offer. Since it was the most popular social network at the time, media mogul Rupert Murdoch decided to buy it. He immediately began to pursue an aggressive monetization policy, hung the site with advertisements, as a result of which the popularity of the service fell, and users switched to Facebook.
The Apple I computer could have been produced under a different brand if the Hewlett Packard company had not let Steve Wozniak go at the time, because it had the right to everything he invented. Production of Apple I computers Steve Wozniak himself offered to fix them several times, but all efforts were in vain, and the management of the Hewlett Packard company simply let him go.
The well-known company IBM owned the rights to the production of Pentium chips, but got rid of them in order to produce more 486 processors.
Yahoo could be an investor in Google, as they approached Yahoo management for investment in a new Internet search technology, but did not receive support. In 2000, they still saw the potential in Google, and began to use its search engine on their website, thereby contributing to the promotion of Google. In 2002, Yahoo could buy Google for $ 3 billion, but the deal fell through.
The owner of Groupon, Andrew Mason, refused an offer to sell his service to Google for $ 6 billion. Instead, he decided to go to the stock exchange and raise 700 million $ shares for sale. For a while, the company was valued at $ 12 billion, but then the company failed to fulfill its promises to shareholders, due to which its value quickly went down.
The list of famous, unsuccessful decisions of the Kodak company ends us, because at one time it could become a benchmark for digital cameras, because the first device was developed and created in the bowels of the company in 1975. But due to fears that it would crowd out their film business, they did not pursue this technology until the mid-1990s. By the time they realized their mistake, it was too late.
According to the material: Geektimes
