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> useless to a buyer To the potential buyer of the asset or a client buying a Google service? Good example, non-Google related - Pinboard buying Delicious.
by mbesto 9y ago
> useless to a buyer
To the potential buyer of the asset or a client buying a Google service?
Good example, non-Google related - Pinboard buying Delicious.
- ronilan 9y agoExcellent example. Can a one-man-show benefit from the disposal of a Google owned asset? Most likely. Parent was talking "tech M&A", "corporate assets" and "the street". Not same.
- mbesto 9y agoI was the OP btw :) I'd have to dig further but I have to imagine there are products that are created by Google that don't reach $100M+ in revenue that Google eventually folds. Something more likely - a product that is $10M in revenue that plateaus and could be sold off as an asset. I honestly don't know, just throwing it out there.
- ronilan 9y agoGoogle doesn't operate that way. Almost everything that comes out is a loss leader in one way or another (and more often than not, in one way and another). You can dig, but it will most likely be extremely hard to find a stand alone product/service that plateaued at such a revenue level. Wishing that such a product would be "created by Google" puts the bar way way too high. The Nik Collection, for example, arrived via acquisition...