Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry by Jacquie McNish

Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry

by Jacquie McNish

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An engineer who grew up building radios in Windsor, Ontario, and an aggressive dealmaker from Seaforth. Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff tell how Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie took Research In Motion from rooms above a bagel shop to the BlackBerry, and then lost it.

Core ideas
  • An essential device: Registered by Lazaridis and Doug Fregin in 1984, RIM built the pocket email device executives and politicians came to depend on.
  • Cracks before the iPhone: Conflict between the two leaders and the disorder of rapid growth weakened the company before Apple and Google moved into phones.
  • Not fraud: Drawing on interviews with senior executives, directors and competitors, the authors frame the fall as mismanagement meeting the speed of innovation.
Published2015
Pages288
ISBN9781250096067
ReadDec 2022

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