alt Hacker News>IBM still exists. They're the perfect example of how far a corporate behemoth can keep rolling after it effectively dies.
wish i ran a dead company that did 67 billion in revenue last year, with year-over-year increases.
>Microsoft is effectively dead.
damn, and this dead company did 280 billion in revenue last year.
(you have a ~unique~ definition of dead.)
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justinclift • yesterday at 11:31 PM
> wish i ran a dead company that did 67 billion in revenue last year, with year-over-year increases.
Didn't IBM used to be north of US$100B/yr?
altmanaltman • yesterday at 9:23 PM
yeah its kindda wild calling one of the largest companies in the world effectively dead because you don't like their AI strategy.
But can really say any of their products are top of their respective niches? Windows, Xbox, Azure are not the gold standard. They had the lead or close to it in these niches but floundered that.
I never understand these takes like they did this much in revenue. OP acknowledges that, they have enterprise down and are too big to fail. What’s to say they couldn’t be doing more revenue? Or even better year over year if they played their cards right. Don’t get me started on GitHub and VSCode. Popular projects are leaving GitHub and VSCode wasn’t able to monetize itself where many forks were able to do so.