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I can think of two reasons: 1. The code can be tightly tied to their internal systems and infra. It may just be more expensive to separate it out, not to menti
by truncate 7y ago
I can think of two reasons:
1. The code can be tightly tied to their internal systems and infra. It may just be more expensive to separate it out, not to mention engineers at Google are smart enough to avoid such projects (I mean, separate it out so that they can sell it) with no value to career.
2. Its success (of whatever scale) is probably tied to Google branding. Once it goes away, its probably as good as yet another job listing site which isn't super hard to make.
- dmix 7y agoRight, #1 makes a lot of sense. The management/engineer’s time and commitment is the most finite resource and it’s possible they integrated it heavily since the 2015 acquisition. That said, they paid $380 million for it when it was called Bebop so it’s not entirely chump change if it retained that value.
- NullPrefix 7y agoWhat if they paid for some info and the company was a bundle deal
- dmix 7y agoHalf a billion dollars is a lot to pay for any one thing like customer data and talent. There has to be a strong business interest at that level.
- NullPrefix 7y agoWhatsApp users were sold $55 each. Data on employed people could be worth more.