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McScrooge | 4 years ago

Are there any examples of an org creating an internal competitor to disrupt external competitors and potentially replace itself?

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dehrmann|4 years ago

Netflix streaming killed Netflix by mail.

dnautics|4 years ago

not totally killed; you can still do it!

jopsen|4 years ago

Was streaming cheaper? Or rather didn't streaming have higher margins?

oblio|4 years ago

iPhone killed the iPad.

Netflix streaming killed Netflix DVDs-by-mail.

Azure-cross-platform-support-is-king is sort-of killing Windows-only-tools.

It's still super hard to do, but every CEO post-2000 has read the innovator's dilemma and you can see that in their actions.

filereaper|4 years ago

>iPhone killed the iPad. I think you meant iPod here.

machinerychorus|4 years ago

Maybe google does something like this, with their myriad services? but then everyone complains about them constantly killing off products

sitkack|4 years ago

No they just fracture and kill markets.

htrp|4 years ago

Many have tried .... no one has succeeded because internal venture innovation is hard.

ksec|4 years ago

>internal venture innovation is hard.

Only CEOs. Which are mostly stuck with politics. Founders tends to have it easier. But that is assuming they see it coming.

oblio|4 years ago

Any day now Google Allo, Hangouts, Talk, Chat, Plus, Wave, Messages, Voice, Duo, Meet will displace Facebook Messenger/WhatsApp! Just you wait!!!

jhawk28|4 years ago

Apple's products regularly cannibalize themselves.

ksec|4 years ago

Intel transition from NAND to Chip.

badinfo|4 years ago

Google had a relatively good chat product, Google Talk. Then they invented Google Hangouts, Google+, Wave, Allo, Messenger, Meet, and Chat.

Now IRC is dead. Who gets the last laugh, huh?!

PeterCorless|4 years ago

You could also argue that Google tried to reinvent Skype, Slack, Discord, and a million other chat apps, and they cannibalized their own offerings because they were feckless and mercurial.

delecti|4 years ago

Google Talk evolved into Hangouts which then evolved into Chat. It's all one continuous line with a terrible marketing strategy. From what I can tell, Meet seems to be just a confusing way to access Hangouts video chats.

c21h30o2|4 years ago

The grizzled IRC veterans. We are finally free of the deluge of clueless plebs.