The Spectacular Rise and Fall of BlackBerry with Jacquie McNish
BlackBerry once ruled the business world.
Presidents, CEOs, and Wall Street relied on its encrypted devices. Then the iPhone arrived — and everything changed.
In this episode, Jacquie McNish, co-author of Losing the Signal, unpacks the untold story behind:
• The improbable rise of Research In Motion
• The 2011 global outage crisis
• The NTP patent war
• 9/11 and encrypted messaging dominance
• The internal fracture between Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie
• The Storm failure
• The QNX pivot and BlackBerry's second act
A fascinating case study in leadership psychology, technological…
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