Another acquisition bites the dust
https://www.lightreading.com/iot/verizon-buries-skyward-its-drone-company/d/d-id/777358
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I remember this one. Mishandled. This should have has some legs but run by the wrongest people on the wrongest coast.
Skyward was a complete joke. Bad acquisition. Now those people are turning Verizon into a Robotics Technology company !!!
New Business Incubation under Corporate Strategy is a trainwreck. They are spending money like drunken sailors on pipe dream projects. There is not a single qualified tech person in that group. It is all Rima Querishi’s non sense pet projects.
Verizon's Hug of Death strikes again
OMG another failure....
The minute that the "Strategy" folks grabbed this company its tomb stone was being carved.
Jeff Holman is the man who is primarily responsible for sinking this ship.
The person who has neither capacity nor capability to scale teams beyond 4-5 people. Also fails at performing day-to-day operational TODO list tasks for all employees under him.
Highly encourage VZ leadership to swap him out for someone more capable, otherwise IncubedIT will also go down in few years. He is only in the position because he sucks up to Marriah Scott (e.g. helping her "find" coffee filters sitting right in front of her nose by using sweet words).
Andy 's great personality makes him a perfect fit to sell collectible figurines to elderly viewers on QVC
There's a director that works there named "U X" that's the full name.
lol....
You would think drones would be a money maker or did vz just meet it up.
I must’ve missed the Up To Speed update on this. I wonder why Andy didn’t cover this.