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1) Smart people who have great ideas 2) A business model that has no need of those ideas 3) Management who have absolutely no idea how to capitalise on those
by grabcocque 9y ago
1) Smart people who have great ideas
2) A business model that has no need of those ideas
3) Management who have absolutely no idea how to capitalise on those ideas outside of a core business?
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That's Google. Google are Xerox.
- moolcool 9y agoGoogle is an ad company which makes products to put ads on
- nine_k 9y agoLike self-driving cars? I think they are desperately groping for something to diversify, because the ad models come and go, and the revenue can some day dry up.
- petepete 9y agoWell, what are you going to watch while you're being driven around?
- ClassyJacket 9y agoTechnically Google doesn't own Waymo, Alphabet does. Maybe that's part of the reason why.
- alaskamiller 9y agoGoogle is a data company, offering the opportunity to manipulate some of that data in exchange for money.
- Nemcue 9y ago.. manipulate some of that data to improve their ads.
- nickpsecurity 9y agoGoogle hasn't done much that's game changing that I've seen. Their incentives and goals are different than PARC most of the time. They did a lot of practical solutions to their problems that are similar to other solutions. The one, ultra-clever thing that jumped out at me was Spanner's TrueTime. Utterly brilliant. Google could become PARC if they chose. Even have some groups like Spanner's doing unconventional stuff. I think it would take changes in management's priorities and evaluation of employees to get it there. It's not yet but there's potential.
- hueving 9y agoGoogle does very little unrelated to making users use their services more. The self driving car is one of the very few examples and a negligible portion of the employees get to work on that.