> It seems that we live in an era where if you made bad decisions in the past, you can never be trusted to make good decisions ever again. Even if you own your bad decisions and show lots of improvement.

I've seen this turn out for the best literally one time, and that was Microsoft.

All the other times the bad company just continues its horrible slide into madness. It doesn't die either, just silently keeps churning out billions of dollars of shareholder value.