To change people’s lives, companies don’t just need disruptive technology. Sometimes they need luck, too.

Consider videocalling. It was developed almost a century ago as a solution for a problem that companies identified but customers didn’t: the need for a machine that would permit face-to-face conversation at any distance.

For decades,…

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