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When I was at google, the one thing I took away was that most of the terrible decisions such as described above were very widely panned before being released in
by Latteland 8y ago
When I was at google, the one thing I took away was that most of the terrible decisions such as described above were very widely panned before being released inside the company. Everyone one of them. That doesn't mean the group of engineers was always right, but they were very good at pointing out bad, controversial ideas.
- JoblessWonder 8y agoIs there an example of an idea that was panned that turned out to be a (even moderate) success?
- dougb5 8y agoThe acquisition of YouTube is one that comes to mind. While it wasn't universally panned, there were a lot of engineers (myself included) who felt it was wildly excessive.
- village-idiot 8y agoThe acquisition of YouTube might’ve not been bad for Google, but I could make the argument that it’s been bad for the rest of us.
- andybak 8y agoI generally still think of YouTube as a global good. Obviously it's a mixed bag but I'd be really sad if it ever vanished.
- Aeolun 8y agoVimeo would just take over.
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- village-idiot 8y agoConsidering it’s one of the driving forces of radicalization, I really can’t agree with that.
- Latteland 8y agoI can't reply to that YouTube message, too much nesting? Anyway, I'll agree that YouTube was a good one. My office was doing Google video, so that project lost out.