9 mentions across the corpus · positive 0 · negative 6 · neutral 0 · historical 3
Charlie Munger's final CNBC interview | November 14, 2023
“Eastman Kodak. Yes, Eastman Kodak. It was just an amazing story that could happen... created a mighty company, a great growth stock, and so forth. And it finally wiped out the shareholders in bankrupt”
Charlie Munger's final CNBC interview | November 14, 2023
“They learned everything, any important man on earth, learned as quickly as they could. They could and so on and so on. And even so, they wiped out the common shareholders.”
Daily Journal Annual Meeting 2023 — Munger Q&A
“Kodak missed the boat of change to digital photography, too.”
Daily Journal Annual Meeting 2023 — Munger Q&A
“Imagine having Kodak die. It was one of the great trademarks of the world...the whole dam business went to zero”
Daily Journal Annual Meeting 2022 — Munger Q&A
“they wiped out the shareholders of General Motors, they wiped out the shareholders of Kodak”
Daily Journal Annual Meeting 2022 — Munger Q&A
“If you got a company like Kodak and they invent something new that obsolete your product, you have a problem too, and you solve that by dying.”
Daily Journal Annual Meeting 2021 — Munger Q&A
“Whoever dreamed when I was young that Kodak and General Motors would go bankrupt.”
Daily Journal Annual Meeting 2015 — Munger Q&A
“Here was Kodak [KODK] that owned the world in silver-based photography. It was the dominant company in the world...wiped out the shareholder with technological change.”
Daily Journal Annual Meeting 2014 — Munger Q&A
“The normal result is Kodak (ticker: KODK). Imagine having a business like Kodak and having it go all the way to bankruptcy.”