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"It\u2019s normal for the financial opportunities in technology to appear endless. Tuesday alone saw news of venture capital stalwart Greylock raising a fresh $1 billion fund and hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, which relies on computer scientists to power its trading strategies, attracting $7 billion in additional capital.\nAnd yet, tech is a fickle master. There\u2019s so much money to be made, but also so many opportunities to squander it, and all because things change so quickly. I wrote just last week that it seemed Samsung couldn\u2019t catch a break. Then things got worse. Again.\nRecalling 2.5 million smartphones wasn\u2019t good enough. Now Samsung has shut down production on the Galaxy Note 7 altogether, causing shares of the Korean technology stalwart to plummet and hammering its quarterly profit expectations. (Samsung\u2019s woes suddenly make Apple\u2019s antenna woes or headphone-jack gripes seem quaint by comparison.)\nIncumbents are disrupted in all industries. But it happens more quickly\u2014and more ferociously\u2014in tech.\nJawbone was Silicon Valley\u2019s \u201Cit\u201D company for several years, making a string of hot, category-defining products from cellphone headsets to wireless speakers to fitness trackers. Yet Jawbone never quite converted its leadership into lasting success. In time, as I described in a feature last year, it became a long-in-the-tooth startup, surviving well past its sell-by date in a fast-moving community of innovators.\nSamsung won&amp;#8217;t recover from its battery issue. \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\nBloomberg reported last week that Jawbone investor Blackrock wants to take control of its assets. The private company\u2019s CEO, Hosain Rahman, told employees over the weekend he has arranged financing to stop this from happening but that he has to beat back one of Jawbone\u2019s \u201Clargest constituents\u201D first. (Blackrock has lent Jawbone $300 million; it would be common for Jawbone to pledge its intellectual property as collateral.)\nJawbone\u2019s CEO told his employees he is considering a \u201Cnumber of options\u201D that \u201Cwould include the reincarnation of the business through a variety of means.\u201D\nGet Data Sheet, Fortune\u2019s technology newsletter, where this essay originated.\nReincarnation is what Silicon Valley does best. But no amount of hope or capital can make up for a missed product cycle, a craftier competitor, or a product that was rushed to market before it was ready.\nTech\u2019s rewards are huge. Its punishments are just as brutal."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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