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Phil McKinney

Personal blog · philmckinney.substack.combusinessstartupseconomics

Phil McKinney's personal blog at philmckinney.substack.com covers business, startups and economics. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2025

Why smart people make terrible innovation decisions — from the former HP CTO & CableLabs CEO who made (and survived) them.

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  1. AndrewDucker · 2025-06-13

    Submitted I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it as a story · 687 points

    HN discussion
  2. wicket · 2025-09-23

    Submitted The WSJ Got Quarterly Reporting Wrong: A Corporate Executive's Response as a story · 21 points

    HN discussion
  3. kiyanwang · 2025-10-27

    Submitted HP's Innovation Spirit and How It Died as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. kiyanwang · 2026-01-29

    Submitted I Bankrupted Two Companies as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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