The Epic Rise And Fall of IBM

In this video we go over the epic rise and fall of technology giant IBM. IBM was once America's most innovative tech companies but they were eventually surpassed by Apple, Microsoft, Google, and others. We go into a deep dive of IBM's history and their future outlook.

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[thomaswilke]

My high school economics teacher last year gave IBM as an example of a company that doesn’t sell to consumers anymore. IBM only now sells their products to enterprise customers

[Alpha_blossom]

my dad just retired from an executive position at IBM, they have a LOT going on behind the scene that isn’t sold to the average consumer, their customers include world governments and major organizations. Everything from software security to national tax systems. Just because the logo isn’t in all of our houses doesn’t mean they failed.

[nadeemchaudhry]

Great video
I used to work for IBM in the early 90's just when the rot started to set in and senior management realised the company was going down.
Based in London, we had a very senior suit (Gerstner's right hand) come over from Albany to tell us we all need to start saving money etc, etc...
The irony was, he flew over in a private jet (this was the 90's, so very costly) to lecture us on cutting back on travel expenses etc....

[hansmeier]

IBM is a rather large dinosaur and I find it pretty impressive that they are still around. It would be even more impressive if they could pull it off and use the consulting money to bring us IBM quantum computing.

[majmunOR]

I don't think IBM was forced to make a deal with Microsoft for MS-DOS. As far as I know, they hired Microsoft to develop an OS for IBM PCs, and instead of buying the rights for the OS from Microsoft, they made the royalty deal, which IBM executives thought it was a win for them ("the real money is in hardware, not software").

[martinschulz]

it's a difficult business to stay on top as it just changes so quickly. I remember when buying a PC being" IBM compatible" was the standard and the benchmark. It was the buzzword in the business.

[stevefellows]

IBM has failed to understand the customer for decades. They continue to make impractical products and services that cost too much and are too difficult for their customers to learn to use.

[filippxx]

IBM has switched from serving their customers to serving dozens of lines of IBM managers. Once you go this route it will just spiral down the cost cutting way just to justify manager's bonuses because you can't have innovation when engineering is done in Excel and PPT by managers.

[bernadettetreual]

IBM is the prime example of a stereotypical corporation: Full of career-pursuing people in suits, without any deep interest in technology or the customer. These days, it's a pure PR machine.

[eaglebeast]

We benched mark Rexx on a 5 yr old IBM mainframe versus the latest wintel. The IBM mainframe was 3 times faster than the wintel. This performance edge is the reason why big banks are still depending on the IBM mainframes in addition to the security edge versus other techs.

[azthangle]

IBM stood for ‘Idiot Becomes Manager’ as I had learned when I got promoted to an IBM sales manager position back in the late 80’s. I spent 13 wonderful years with IBM back in the early 80’s selling their hardware and software solutions. IBM forgot its motto of ‘Customer Experience’ is what they should focus on instead of jamming IBM proprietary technologies down its customers throat. I am currently collecting my IBM pension in my retirement nowadays so ‘ Go Blue’.

[kz]

You should remove room reverb and leave vocal dry so it’s more professional. Soon you will have millions subscribers! Keep up the hard work!

[nanky]

IBM biggest issue is that it did everything everyone else did worse and for less profit. That’s why companies should always understand their what they want and then pursue it at all cost for supremacy.

[hampuskarrlander]

IBM is far from dead, they are pretty strong in software. They still have giant accounts in Fortune 100 companies

[munenex]

To make a great company hire self made managers and engineers.
To destroy a great company, hire business graduates.

[lawrencep]

Back in the 90s throughout early 2000, a line of business that making over 10 million annual for IBM meant nothing to their upper management. Even if the nature of that profit making division was good for publicity. Their upper management would close it permanently without hesitation. Because they have to concentrate on the real money making corporate structure.

[Spartacus]

Didn't IBM announced a few weeks ago they have a 2 nanometer chip? That's pretty impressive

[ngb]

IBM is a sleeping giant. It's focusing on Quantum Computing now. Just that Google, Microsoft have openly advertised the focus and IBM has not.

[Hawxxfan]

every time you swipe a credit card in the U.S., you are probably using IBM's middleware service

[sneezygibz]

I joined ibm and as a developer after graduating in 2021. 7 months later I ended up leaving to Microsoft.