Speaking of companies laughing at competitors they shouldn't, my father has a great story from his time at IBM. He was in a meeting where they were talking abo

Speaking of companies laughing at competitors they shouldn't, my father has a great story from his time at IBM. He was in a meeting where they were talking about Amazon Web Services, which had just launched. He said an IBM executive called it "stupid" and asked, "Who would ever pay for a server with a credit card?" This blew my mind, because now that AWS is crushing IBM's cloud offerings, the answer to his question is tons of people.