How BlackBerry Lost an $83 Billion Smartphone Empire

How BlackBerry lost an $83 billion smartphone empire: the rise and fall of Research In Motion, from a Waterloo pager to a rounded zero percent of the world's smartphones. This documentary traces how the BlackBerry was built, from a small firm in Waterloo, Ontario, and a two-way pager to nearly half of America's consumer smartphones. It follows the iPhone launch, the record years that hid a shrinking share, the 2011 outage, BlackBerry 10 and the company's turn to software. Chapters: 0:00 Cold open 0:57 Act I: Two Engineers and a Pager 2:28 Act II: The Badge on Every Belt 4:25 Act III: The Records That Hid the Fall 7:07 Act IV: Life After the Phone Sources: • BlackBerry Limited - The Canadian Encyclopedia – https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.c... • Research In Motion - Form 6-K, fiscal 2011 results (SEC) – https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/da... • Growth Curve: RIM Device Surges Past iPhone In Q1 (MediaPost, NPD data) – https://www.mediapost.com/publication... • Gartner: Apple topped smartphone market in Q4 2016, BlackBerry OS share reduced to 0.0% (GSMArena) – https://www.gsmarena.com/gartner_appl... • BlackBerry to end internal hardware development (BNN Bloomberg, Sept 28, 2016) – https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/blackberr... • BlackBerry fourth quarter and full fiscal year 2026 results - Form 8-K (SEC) – https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/da... • RIM Takeover Beckons Microsoft With Cheapest Multiple (Bloomberg, June 2011) - 'once worth $83 billion' – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-0... • What the BlackBerry guys said when they saw Apple's iPhone (Fortune, May 2015, Losing the Signal excerpt) – https://fortune.com/2015/05/25/what-t... • BlackBerry Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2014 Results (Sept 27, 2013) – https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/comp... • Blackberry bows out of making its own hardware (TechCrunch, Sept 28, 2016) – https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/28/bla... If this story was worth your time, like the video, subscribe to Lofoozy for more business history, and tell us which company we should investigate next. ▶ Watch next: 2008 Financial Crisis: How Mortgage Defaults Erased $11 Trillion:    • 2008 Financial Crisis: How Mortgage Defaul...   📊 About Lofoozy Documentaries We tell the untold stories behind history's greatest company origins, corporate collapses, and economic turning points. ⚖️ Educational Disclaimer: This video is a historical business and economic case study created strictly for educational and documentary purposes. It does not constitute financial, legal, or investment advice. ☕ Support us on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/lofoozy The Lofoozy Team #businesshistory #blackberry #documentary #smartphones #corporatefailure