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I think they presented it wrong for impact. If instead of "killed" and "eliminated" they were saying that the internet made it possible to proceed without a sales team and that cloud computing made it possible to not need a bare metal IT team, it makes a little more sense. That is to say, it's not going to be the most effective way, but it went from impossible to at least viable. Similar to music recording. It used to be you needed competent instrumentalists and access to a commercial recording studio. Now you can do it all at home on a laptop and it is viable, people are successfully doing it. But in large part the most successful music is still done using the same professionals that existed before.