Just to emphasize this point: Walmart was to the IT revolution what Amazon is to the Internet revolution. They were among the first in the sector to move beyond

Just to emphasize this point: Walmart was to the IT revolution what Amazon is to the Internet revolution. They were among the first in the sector to move beyond paper and industrialize IT for operations, which allowed them to scale way faster and way more efficiently than their competition. Walmart's most powerful executives were IT executives, and many of them went on to have very decorated careers, e.g., Kevin Turner was the CIO immediately prior to becoming COO at Microsoft. Walmart is not an Internet company. It is definitely a tech company. It's just that its tech is no longer super cool.