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Claude Stern's avatar

Rob, I’m afraid I’m in the “did I really say/think/believe that s*%t?” club myself. In the late 1980s when the inventor of the Koosh ball showed me the prototype, I thought to myself “who the hell will buy this s#*t for their kid?” Uh-huh. Maybe 50 or 100 million units later, I’m still convinced I can’t tell a winner retail prototype from a loser. And I also believed that cellphone with a stylus (remember the Palm?) would wipe out those without (like iPhones). Another brilliant feat of speculation.

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Michelle Barmazel's avatar

One of my stupid things was when, in 1998, I was interviewing to be a payments specialist at McKinsey and said that electronic payments would never replace coins for small purchases (like gum)…

And I got the job!!🤦🏽‍♀️

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Rogue4Gay's avatar

I have been in tech since the early 80s.

The one big transition I missed was people moving from voice to voice communications to text on the phone. Did not understand why people would resort to text to communicate when talking was easier. Didn't think that the Blackberry would succeed.

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Robert E. Siegel's avatar

I didn't get texting at first, but eventually I realized that the younger generations hate email....

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