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> And it stopped existing because she left Google. How could I possibly predict that? It's pretty easy really, and you don't have to predict Google executive t
by jldugger 7y ago
> And it stopped existing because she left Google. How could I possibly predict that?
It's pretty easy really, and you don't have to predict Google executive tenures: if the founder of a service you are considering using sells the company to Google and runs a completely different product division afterwards, even if that service doesn't immediately sunset and lives on as a vanity project, it will die of neglect. The founder focuses on the job they were hired for, and the competition will not remain in stasis like the service inevitably does.
- 4ntonius8lock 7y agoAh, so the solution is to understand the internal culture of every company you do business with? Our definition of 'easy really' might be very different. In fact, whenever someone talks about complex topics and starts off with 'easy really' I cringe. There's a certain perspective people have to have to use such language, and that perspective is very far from my general understanding that 'reality is complex'.
- jldugger 7y ago> Ah, so the solution is to understand the internal culture of every company you do business with? I'm comfortable treating this as a universal constant. Any company that buys a startup and immediately promotes their CEO to a different department never cared about the startup they just bought.
- wpietri 7y agoI think that's a good heuristic if the product is a startup and if the executive moves on and if I can see that. But I'll note that even that's not perfect. YouTube was an acquisition where all of the founders moved on to other things, and 9 years later it's still doing fine.