# kaal:claim:3808873-003

**Claim.** Legacy businesses actively neutralize decentralized competition by acquiring little known companies that hold highly competitive decentralized technologies, as Microsoft's acquisition of Skype illustrates.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- incumbent firms facing decentralized technology competitors

**Source quote.**

> In their attempts to neutralize their decentralized competitor businesses, legacy businesses are acquiring little-known companies with highly competitive decentralized technologies.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralization Neutralizers* (2021), I. Introduction, page 4

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization Neutralizers (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808873

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**Failure mode.** Acquisition Capture of Decentralized Competitors  (family: incumbent-resistance-to-adoption)

**Topics.** economics, decentralization

**Keywords.** legacy-business, acquisition, competition, decentralized-technology

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