Jeff bezos had 300k loan and just himself, a computer and stack of old books, yet grew it into Amazon. DST had hundreds of millions of dollars, thousands of technical staff and huge data centers yet it missed the ball and failed. Dst couldn't assign 1 programmer to do what bezos did? If so DST would have been amazon. But dst is gone and layoffs took an emotional toll on its staff
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IFDS, DST or SS&C could have been great but for that you need great leaders and innovators, alas both those types of people do not exist within any of those companies.
SS&C exists as it has long term clients stuck with poor service, outdated technology along with the buyout of innovative companies and burning them into the ground and riding off their loans.
Oh yes. DST could have been an AI company or developed bitcoins.