2 ms·

Google doesn't really excel at markets such as Looker's. We happily pay for Looker and get excellent support from them. It'd take many, many years of hearing

Google doesn't really excel at markets such as Looker's. We happily pay for Looker and get excellent support from them. It'd take many, many years of hearing success stories with Google before I'd even consider moving off of Looker on to a competitive product by them and even then the switching costs would unlikely to ever be worth it.

lmeyerov 10y ago
Sort of how Google pays for a quantum computer while building a new one? ;-) Today the Tableaus of the world grow the market, but I think they'll naturally consolidate under bigger umbrellas. I bet Microsoft is watching Google's moves here closely. Just as MS grew from Excel to PowerBI and AzureML etc., Google's cloud initiative would naturally grow from Spreadsheets to something like the above. Single-service startups and even the Tableaus of the world may be temporary noise: the $xxB goal is instead getting more gravity than AWS and MS for cloud data workflows. The monopoly play is create good-enough analytics software, make it free on the dimensions smaller companies like Looker charge for, and undercut by instead bundling into overall Google/Azure/AWS deals. Commodify the market but get more of it. We looked into BI a few years ago for where we should leverage our client/cloud GPU tech, and decided BI was an execution sprint to $100M and then bail. So, while I wish the best to my (smart!) colleagues at Looker, Periscope, MapD, etc., we decided to go another way. And... Worth mentioning, we're hiring! ;-) build@graphistry.