By the late 00s, Best Buy was a company on its heels. They maybe could have gone head to head with Amazon, but the CEO made a terrible decision that set them back 10 years.
And here’s the point: in hindsight, it was very clearly a terrible decision. The kind of decision we supposedly pay CEOs not to make.
So…did that CEO get paid the usual gajillions? Or were they booted from industry, never able to find work again? Well…
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