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Exactly, just because you have a lot of cash doesn't mean you should force investment into things that may not make sense. It's like if you had a huge buffet an
by ehsankia 7y ago
Exactly, just because you have a lot of cash doesn't mean you should force investment into things that may not make sense. It's like if you had a huge buffet and force fed yourself until you threw up. If anything, Google probably gets flak for having too many ideas and being all over the place. People keep saying they need more focus, yet when they do that, they get accused of not having any more ideas...
- siruncledrew 7y agoInvestors and board members would be way more wary of how the company is run if Google decided to do drastic things outside the scope of their core business (like Google Amusement Parks) for superfluous reasons, which would further make them lose money is the stock sinks. At Google’s size they can invest a lot in R&D and product iterations, but because they are so big the innovation seems way less drastic relative to their size. Put it this way, if I put a new motor, deck, and paint on a small boat, it would seem like I did a lot, whereas if a giant cruise ship did the same thing, it wouldn’t really carry the same impact to outside viewers.
- ehsankia 7y agoI mean, at the alphabet scale, they have pretty wild stuff like waymo, loon, verily, calico, wing, etc. Even at Google, there's pretty cool tech too like stadia, soli, duplex, and so on.