This document discusses the decline of Eastman Kodak due to digital photography. It describes exploring the abandoned Kodak building in Sweden and notes that Kodak employed around 140,000 people in the late 1980s but only around 25,000 today. It also mentions that Kodak's stock price declined from around $85 per share in 1999 to $2-3 per share currently, as digital technology disrupted Kodak's film-based business model.

1. Kodak Vandalized Part 2

3. We’ll take a look at the interior of the former Kodak
building, outside Stockholm, Sweden…

7. As society became increasingly digital, Kodak
lost its core business…

10. … Kodak had about 140 000 employees in the late 1980s…

14. … Today, around 25 000.

15. There must be quite a few places like this around the world.

23. Here’s the main entrance from the inside.

24. Before the digital revolution, Kodak’s stock was traded at
about 85 USD in 1999…

27. … Today, the stock has declined to 2‐3 dollars.

36. Digital technology has burnt it all.

37. Christian Sandström is a PhD
student at Chalmers
University of Technology in
Gothenburg, Sweden. He
G h b S d H
writes and speaks about
disruptive innovation and
disruptive innovation and
technological change.

38. Christian Sandström is a PhD
student at Chalmers
University of Technology in
Gothenburg, Sweden. He
G h b S d H
writes and speaks about
disruptive innovation and
disruptive innovation and
technological change.
But what happened to Kodak?
B t h th d t K d k?

39. Christian Sandström is a PhD
student at Chalmers
University of Technology in
Gothenburg, Sweden. He
G h b S d H
writes and speaks about
disruptive innovation and
disruptive innovation and
technological change.
But what happened to Kodak?
B t h th d t K d k?
Find out more:
www.christiansandstrom.org
christian.sandstrom at chalmers.se