Xerox is like Google where they made more money than they expected quite early, and for a while could afford to pursue a few potential opportunities that were n

Xerox is like Google where they made more money than they expected quite early, and for a while could afford to pursue a few potential opportunities that were not really their core competency to begin with. They had lots of good people who were coming up with new ideas all the time, but it doesn't take much of a downturn for efforts initiated during a windfall to turn out unsustainable and eventually be jetissoned.