20 Companies That KILLED Their Own Best Products (And Regretted It)

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20 Companies That KILLED Their Own Best Products (And Regretted It) Some companies don't fail because competitors beat them. They fail because they murdered their own successes. Google killed Reader despite millions begging them not to. Microsoft destroyed Internet Explorer's95% market share. Apple deliberately cannibalized the iPod—their $10 billion cash cow. Yahoo refused to buy Google for $1 million and Facebook for $1 billion. These aren't market failures—these are executive decisions that destroyed billions in value. This documentary explores 20 products with millions of loyal users, dominant market positions, and billions in revenue that companies deliberately killed. From strategic genius (Apple's iPod cannibalization) to catastrophic incompetence (Yahoo, Kodak, Microsoft), we examine why companies murder their own successes and what happens when they do. Examples include: Google Reader (millions of users ignored), Netflix DVDs ($1B profit machine deliberately killed), Vine (200M users, died one year before TikTok exploded), Kodak (invented digital cameras then suppressed them), and Twitter/X (Elon Musk destroying $30B in value in real time). Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction: Corporate Self-Sabotage 1:02 - #20: Google Reader 3:01 - #19: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5:02 - #18: Yahoo Search 8:30 - #17: Kodak Digital Camera 9:17 - #16: Windows XP 11:33 - #15: Flip Video Camera 13:42 - #14: Inbox by Gmail 15:31 - #13: Nokia Symbian 17:27 - #12: Google Wave 19:07 - #11: Amazon's Dash Buttons 21:07 - #10: Apple iPod 22:51 -#9: Blackberry Keyboard 24:37 - #8: Microsoft Windows Mobile 26:23 - #7: Google+ 27:59 - #6: Firewire 29:27 - #5: Netflix DVD by Mail 31:21 - #4: Google Shopping (Froogle) 32:42 - #3: Apple 30-pin Connector 34:08 - #2: Twitter API 35:38 - #1: Microsoft Skype 37:22 - Conclusion: Lessons from Corporate Murder --- Before WiFi explores life before smartphones and WiFi changed everything, the technology, gadgets, corporate decisions, and cultural moments from 1990-2010. 🔔 Subscribe for weekly nostalgia, tech history, and corporate failure analysis 📧 Business: [email protected] Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb5VsQvYStDlyw5rXYpi-bQ/join #CorporateFailure #TechHistory #ProductFailures #BusinessMistakes #BeforeWiFi #BigTech #StartupFailures#TechNostalgia