Companies Who Destroyed Themselves With One Dumb Decision Explained Like You're 5

Companies Who Destroyed Themselves With One Dumb Decision Explained Like You're 5. One decision. That's all it took. The company that owned the software on every PC in America missed one meeting with IBM, and Microsoft got the future. A variety-store chain gave credit cards to anyone who walked in, then filed the second-largest bankruptcy in U.S. history. The computer maker that shipped in cow-spotted boxes built 300 stores it never needed. And Hostess decided it would rather liquidate the Twinkie than make a deal. Ten companies, each destroyed by one decision somebody signed off on.