The Truth About Kodak: The Company that Invented the Digital Camera — Then Threw It Away

In 1975, a 25-year-old engineer at Kodak invented something that would change the world forever — the digital camera. His own bosses called it "a scary look at the future" and buried it. Fourteen years later, Kodak had a second chance to lead the digital photography revolution. They buried that too. By 2012, the company that controlled 90% of America's film market had filed for bankruptcy — and sold the patents to its own invention to the exact companies that ran away with it: Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Samsung. This is the untold story of how Kodak invented the future, and then spent 40 years making sure nobody could use it. Chapters: 0:00 The Photo That Changed Everything (Hook) 0:32 The Engineer Who Wasn't Supposed to Be There (The Setup) 2:36 Building the Impossible (The Invention) 4:46 A Scary Look at the Future (The Room) 6:53 Second Chance, Same Mistake (The Burial) 9:01 Death by a Thousand Cuts (The Slow Bleed) 11:16 The Collapse (The Fall) 13:36 Sold to the Winners (The Irony) Subscribe for more untold business stories. #Kodak #DigitalCamera #BusinessHistory