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| Company | Fork date | The fork | Options | Choice | Stated rationale | What happened | Judgment analyst | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Read the story → verified | 2023 | Whether to pay $1B to walk away from the Figma deal or fight two regulators to close it |
| Pay fee and terminate | There was no clear path to receive necessary regulatory approvals from the European Commission and the UK CMA | No dated outcome stated yet | reversibility low verdict too-early | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission / Adobe Inc. (2023-12); CNBC (2023-12) |
| Alphabet (Google) Read the story → verified | 2013-03-13 | Whether to keep a loved but non-scaling product like Google Reader alive, or discontinue it to focus on fewer products |
| Discontinue Reader | The product had a loyal but declining following and no path to the only number that matters, and Google wanted to focus on fewer products | Latest · 2013 user petition to save the product: the petition to save it ultimately drew more than 150,000 signatures | reversibility low verdict held | Wikipedia / Google Reader article (cites original Google blog post) (2013-03); Change.org (2013-03) |
| Amazon Read the story → verified | 2014-07-25 | Whether to bet on a commerce-funnel Fire Phone launched at a premium price |
| Launch premium funnel phone | The phone was engineered to feed Amazon's commerce funnel rather than to be the best phone a customer could hold | Latest · 2014 Q3 2014 operating loss: Operating loss of $544 million — its largest ever at the time | reversibility medium verdict reversed | Wikipedia / Variety / Recode (2014-10); Amazon.com, Inc. — Q3 2014 Earnings Conference Call (2014-10); Variety (2014-10) |
| AMD Read the story → verified | 2008-10-07 | Whether AMD should sell its fabs and become a fabless chip designer amid near-insolvency |
| Sell fabs, go fabless | A near-insolvent company sold its most valuable physical assets for a balance-sheet reprieve and debt relief | 3 years · 2012 Exit from exclusivity: AMD paid $703 million to escape the Wafer Supply Agreement exclusivity | reversibility low verdict partial | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (2009-04); Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. / GlobalFoundries Inc. (2011-02); Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. / Intel Corporation (2009-11); EE Times (2010-04); Culpium (independent financial analysis) (2024-10) |
| AMD Read the story → verified | 2006-10 | After buying ATI's GPUs, whether to fund a general-purpose GPU software platform |
| Buy GPU silicon only | AMD stated it lacked the financial resources to compete on such a large scale, and after the acquisition spent its capital servicing debt and untangling from its factories. | 5 years · 2025 Discrete GPU market leadership: AMD's FY2025 filing concedes Nvidia is the share leader and claims leadership only in semi-custom game consoles | reversibility low verdict held | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (2006-10); Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (1999); Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (2007-01); GPUnex Blog (2026-01); Thunder Compute (2026-06); Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (2026-02) |
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