Companies such as IBM have very strong influence and high reputation. Now there are a lot of blockchain companies that offer different solutions for the elections, the work of governments, the car and real estate market, and other business processes on blockchain. But, no company has a such reputation that will help to give a start to the use of the product.
While there are a lot of new blockchain company are born, IBM and others have already concluded contracts, and under the contracts will be created products. I think that IBM will create a blockchain product 10 times faster than any existing companies that create only 1 wallet for 6 months.