McDermott: Xerox had cloud computing ideas but lacked singular focus
Bill McDermott · ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott on Entrepreneurship, AI, and Automation · Jul 4, 2023 · at 17:10
ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott reflects on Xerox's missed opportunity to pioneer modern cloud and on-demand computing models.
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“And if you think about cloud computing and distributing things on demand, Xerox had all those ideas, but didn't necessarily lean into them with a single purpose at the time. I think that could have made a really big difference.”
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