Sources: IBM is exploring a sale of its IBM Watson Health business, which has roughly $1B in annual revenue and isn't currently profitable
WSJ reports IBM exploring sale of Watson Health business https://www.wsj.com/... Jeffrey Snover / @jsnover : I always considered Watson a pixie dust marketing ploy aimed at the low tech-competent executives with too much $. Watson is like a C compiler. It can do anything if you pay for enough contractors. https://twitter.com/... Subrahmanyam Kvj / @sub8u : Hopefully the next owner of Watson will be able to explain in concrete terms what they paid for 😂 “IBM Explores Sale of IBM Watson Health” https://www.wsj.com/... Charles Fitzgerald / @charlesfitz : From curing cancer to sold for scrap. Yet another chapter of “over promise, under deliver” in the IBM saga. https://www.wsj.com/...
AI like this should be and, I think, is expected to be, a loss leader. Someone buying it probably shouldn't expect to turn a profit https://www.wsj.com/...
What might be a problem for any buyer of this? What key inputs would a buyer have no control over, including, but not limited to, wholesale price? https://www.google.com/...
I always considered Watson a pixie dust marketing ploy aimed at the low tech-competent executives with too much $. Watson is like a C compiler. It can do anything if you pay for enough contractors. https://twitter.com/...
Hopefully the next owner of Watson will be able to explain in concrete terms what they paid for 😂 “IBM Explores Sale of IBM Watson Health” https://www.wsj.com/...