With great power comes great profit, and then even the innovative get fat and lazy. This was the paradigm pre 2000s. Rome rose and fell. Microsoft’s monopoly was cracked. <a href="https://medium.com/@Kodak" data-anchor-type="2" data-user-id="27d2ab3136de" data-action-value="27d2ab3136de" data-action="show-user-card" data-action-type="hover" target="_blank">Kodak</a> created the digital camera and kept it from customers.