A closer look

Talk about actively assisting your own assassination. A Kodak engineer actually built the very first digital camera in the 1970s, but upper management was utterly terrified. Since they held a lucrative monopoly on selling chemical film and photo paper, they locked the digital prototype in a closet and pretended it didn't exist. By the time they realized digital photography was the future, they were lightyears behind their rivals and quickly spiraled into bankruptcy.