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> If the company fails to achieve this goal, some staffers reportedly believe that Alphabet could withdraw from the market completely. If I was a paranoid pers
by Analemma_ 7y ago
> If the company fails to achieve this goal, some staffers reportedly believe that Alphabet could withdraw from the market completely.
If I was a paranoid person, I might think this article is a sinister plan from Amazon or Microsoft. A quote like this can easily become a self-fulfilling prophecy: managers are already wary about GCP because of Google's flaky reputation, hearing a quote like this could easily make it worse, and the lack of new business makes Google all the more likely to shut it down.
- wlesieutre 7y agoI think that's a hole Google dug for themselves, they don't need any help from Amazon or Microsoft
- londons_explore 7y agoGoogle Cloud was always a "become number one or die" thing. Same with Google Plus. Google has assigned so many engineers to building and running the platform. That means the platform has a high ongoing cost to provide. Unless the platform grows rapidly and grabs a significant chunk of the market, it will never be profitable at Googles current level of investment. You can't scale a project down from 5000 engineers to just 50 and expect it to carry on running as before.