Like in that scene in The Terminator (1984), when the skin of the titular assassin melts/burns off/whatever, and it is revealed for what it truly is: a machine. Here, the "death blow" to a corporation reveals its true nature: an artificial intelligence. Implemented in bureaucracy and economics, executing on a runtime that's literally made of humans as processing units. C-suite, employees, customers, partners - all just execution substrate.
So yeah, you'd think that this corporate entity was dead already - but it was never alive in the first place. Unlike the humans opposing it, it doesn't need to be.
