The decisions that made it
The Cannibalization Choice · Decision Forks
Palm Didn't Miss the Smartphone. It Invented It, Then Took Itself Apart.
On its first trading day in 2000, Palm was worth $54 billion — more than the parent that owned 94% of it. Within a decade HP bought the whole thing for $1.2 billion and killed it in 13 months. The killer wasn't blindness. It was self-inflicted.
8 min
The Fork · Decision Forks
The Palm Founders Didn't Come Home. They Were Carried Back on a Stretcher.
The Palm-Handspring story sells itself as a triumphant founder reunion. The filings tell a different one: Handspring was in 'dire financial situation' by 2003, its board split between a rescue financing and a merger, and Palm bought it mainly to get the Treo it had not itself built.
8 min