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Ruba is not acquired by google. The Ruba team is just working with iGoogle team. http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/21/google-acquires-travel-guide-startup-ruba/ ht
by random42 16y ago
Ruba is not acquired by google. The Ruba team is just working with iGoogle team.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/21/google-acquires-travel-guide-startup-ruba/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/21/google-acquires-travel-guid...
- davidu 16y agoI think the point Google is making is that ruba.com will be shut down and the team Mike assembled will be integrated into iGoogle and other teams. They will not be working on ruba.com any more. Mike had assembled a world-class team, including former Googlers and Google wanted those people back working for them. It's the Google boomerang. :-)
- random42 16y agoYeah, probably. But Ruba is not acquired YET and my personal experience (very limited, I must admit), tells me not to jump to conclusions. :-)
- silkodyssey 16y agoAn acquisition seems to be the logical outcome because if the team is going to be working at Google then that raises the question of what's going to happen to the ruba.com site. It doesn't seem plausible that the project would just be abandoned because I think it's reasonable for the owners to expect some compensation for the work they've done.
- cmelbye 16y ago1. Unsatisfied with working at Google, Googler leaves to become a founder at a startup 2. Startup does stuff that Google wants 3. Google acquires startup, Googler is back at Google 4. ??? 5. Profit!!
- icey 16y agoIt seems like a pretty meritocratic way to earn a bigger pay raise than you'd normally get.
- davidu 16y agoIt's also a common strategy for someone in an organization to make a big vertical leap or move across the organization in a way that would be nearly impossible internally. Basically, an infrastructure engineer leaves and comes back as a VP of Product for social wizardry.