Scott Galloway: Baby Bells eclipsed AT&T's value within a decade of breakup
Scott Galloway · Scott Galloway: Unfiltered lessons for business and life | Masters of Scale · Oct 17, 2024 · at 10:39
NYU professor and author Scott Galloway discusses the historical precedent for tech antitrust breakups with Masters of Scale host Jeff Berman.
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“When we broke up the AT&T into the Baby Bells, all seven of those companies were more valuable than the original AT&T on their own within about a decade, and things like Fiber and Analytics and Cell and Broadband were all lying fallow in Bell Labs because AT&T didn't want to disrupt itself.”
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