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> But they could have been Apple? That's a stretch.

They could have been a Sony. The iPhone camera sensor is made by Sony.




And Sony has certainly had rough patches too. And that's for a company coming from an electronics manufacturer angle.

Kodak could have spun off a consumer electronics or semiconductor manufacturing company. But it's not clear why that is actually a better model than someone else just spinning up similar entities.

I don't need all the chemical engineers and a lot of other people connected with the old business anyway. And I'm sure not turning them into semiconductor experts.

So you're one of the 10% of employees in HR who snuck through to the other side. Is that really a big deal?


That's right. The chief executives and the HR lady basically get transferred over to a new startup funded with Kodak's money and everyone else is fired.




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