Kodak, in the mid-'70s invented digital photography.
Kodak, what a dumb ass company to stick with chemicals.
Kodak closed in 2005.
Kodak is a perfect example.
Kodak was such a huge, successful company.
Kodak was this great company.
Kodak was amazingly innovative.
Kodak was encumbered. It was constrained by its success.
Kodak. This guy. This says it already-- "My prototype was big as a toaster.
Kodak was in the printing business.
Kodak decided to get into the game, and in 1976, introduced its own instant camera line.
Kodak ER there are other quotes I have for the New York Times at the time about fiendish code ackers lying in wait
So Kodak, we're a chemical company.
Like Kodak should have pivoted.
The Kodak one was amazing.
Eastman Kodak was the high-tech go-go company of its day.
where Kodak is sort of second to none.
At Kodak, which was Polaroid's chief competitor-- much larger, too-- they used to refer to Polaroid as "he." They'd say, what's he doing next?
are Kodak and Duracell, they call them Kodacell. "That's what you're going to do for Kodacell, make these things out of recycled toys?” Lester chuckled. “Nope, not quite. That’s
So if Kodak were working backwards, they'd say, our customers want to preserve memories.
And then Kodak, hopefully, would have said, you know what?
So this is the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory.
Companies stop operating-- Kodak, et cetera-- if they're not made in a sensible way.
It had a Kodak body and a Nikon lens on it.
So Eastman Kodak say, we got to change this up, man.
I grew up-- Kodak was the king of photography.
Look at Kodak, Polaroid, or Oracle, Sun.
is the year Kodak declares bankruptcy.
this douchebags from Kodak, getting in his ear about how his-- "George, your films just don't look warm.
That's why Kodak is what it is.
He thought that Kodak sounded powerful and dominant.
He felt that if Kodak, with its vast reach and vaster resources, couldn't do more than rip him off--
This is a Kodak film, it was ISO 400. It was a little noi-, little-- God bless you. It was a little grainy. We could push that 400 film to 800 and it became
luminaries like kodaks George Eastman and mgm's Irving thalberg thought the talkies were a passing fad of Bing
So they introduced the idea of the Kodak moment.
We all knew what a Kodak moment was.
Does anybody else remember a Kodak moment?
were using um slide carriers with with Kodak
and the technical insights of Kodak employees, and we provided them a share the ownership so they would be so innovative.
The other thing that happened was that Kodak, as I said, which had begun to perceive Polaroid as a competitor,
Ed Yourden: And then the Kodak culture said, ìWhy do we have these computer companies?î And they sold us off and went back to making little yellow boxes.
I went to work for Kodak as a marketing manager. I bossed everyone around. I told people what to do. When the sales people didn't have their sales plans right, I just rewrote 'em for
And for us to release the Kodak would be breaking the law.” So, I mean, there's a totally dead format. So we have to watch out for that.
our kids um I did not know about the Koda pillar yeah lot of fun ones available on
And this hat garnered a letter of recognition from Harold Koda , the curator in charge of the Met Museum
So in 1975, Kodak invented digital photography.
So how many of you out there use a Kodak digital camera today?
Well, I think that Kodak was always thinking forward.
Now, if Kodak were thinking backwards, they would say, you know what?
So fundamentally, what Kodak does is it helps people preserve memories.