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That's after it's huge. Uber 0.1 was probably just WhatsApp to a couple of drivers.

• obmelvin 10y ago
  And early Google was 'just' a search engine, something that already existed in some forms, that looked totally unlike the Google of today. You are correct, but what are you trying to say? All companies are going to be 'lame' early on by definition.
  • bobsil1 10y ago
    No, Google 0.1 did something technically nontrivial. These other co's only got technically interesting after scale, which is generically true. Since you don't know whether the startup will succeed, you'd better enjoy the work, eg scraper (FB 0.1) and forum software (0.5). There are any # of co's not lame early on: Google, Adobe, Zee Aero, Joby, Viv/Siri, Cruise, Magic Leap, DeepMind, Vicarious…
    • ricksplat 10y ago
      > Google 0.1 did something technically nontrivia Indexing and rating web pages based on links back to pages. Basically a massive "outer join" on the web. Basically a software implementation of how academic papers are rated, but technically a massive data processing exercise - not just a good idea in theory but required a great deal of engineering skill to implement.