In the '90s-'00s I worked on a seminal ecomm product for 9 years. It won several awards, blew the competition out of the market, and sold 50K units in the first

In the '90s-'00s I worked on a seminal ecomm product for 9 years. It won several awards, blew the competition out of the market, and sold 50K units in the first 8 months. We were bought by a clueless (Canadian) company whose first move was to fire all our graphic designers and stop development of the product. Our doors closed less than two years laters. Bomb Canada. (jk, but I still rue the day my friend (CEO) came to me and said the sale was a good idea, and that I, as employee number one, needed to let him know what I thought. Had I known the eventual outcome, I would have said no.) -- veteran of the psychic wars :)