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Whats the process for Google to make this sort of thing? Does some 7 figure exec say we need to make it easier to draw bikes and then Google gets their army of
by wehadfun 9y ago
Whats the process for Google to make this sort of thing? Does some 7 figure exec say we need to make it easier to draw bikes and then Google gets their army of 10x engineers to make this happen?
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- garganzol 9y agoIt looks like Google persistently feels guilty for getting enormous amounts of money without bringing too much of a value (Ads). So they try to compensate that by giving back. Most of the stuff they offer is honestly crap, but this one (Autodraw) and stuff like GMail are very decent.
- newsat13 9y agoGmail is bread and butter for their ad ecosystem.
- zeroxfe 9y agoFor stuff like this, it usually starts from the bottom. Engineers have ideas, convince others to help them work on their ideas, build prototypes (alone or with others), sometimes get help from product managers to develop a business plan, then pitch it to senior leadership to get some funding. It takes a lot of skill, tact, and product acumen to get things out the door -- probably the same set of skills as you would need outside Google. (Except that within, you have access to more and better resources, but the bar is much higher.) Obviously, this doesn't mean that every idea will stick... a lot of them won't -- some don't make money, some don't provide real value, and some are just terrible ideas. But it's a much better process than just top-down alone.
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- zippergz 9y ago[Edited because I'm dumb and can't count figures] I've mostly seen this kind of thing happen because some engineer(s) wanted to try an idea, not because it was imposed from above.
- tlarkworthy 9y agoCollege grads make 6 figures, 7 figures is one million or higher
- zippergz 9y agoLOL. Yup. I'm an idiot.