The worst business decision ever made in the hi-tech world

1. SamsungThe VP gets 5 years in prison for an advisor to South Korea’s president.
2. AppleiPhone X’s facial recognition tech glitched during the launch demo.
3. AXACTExposed by the NYTimes as a diploma mill and an extortion racket.
4. ChinaInvestors in ICO’s lost billions when China declared them illegal.
5. JuiceroRaised capital and pre-sold a product with getting the prototype right.
6. Decision to not buy Google at throw away price.
   
   

   Early in 1999, while graduate students, Sergey Brin and Larry Page decided that their search engine they had developed was taking up too much time and distracting their academic pursuits.
   They went to Excite CEO George Bell and offered to sell it to him for $1 million. He rejected the offer and later criticized Vinod Khosla, one of Excite's vent...