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It's so stupid that they've got this reputation now. A lot of the things they've killed could've instead been sold/spun off instead. Shutting down successful se
by jfoster 7y ago
It's so stupid that they've got this reputation now. A lot of the things they've killed could've instead been sold/spun off instead. Shutting down successful services that are not successful enough by Google's standards has given them a bad rep at the same time as destroying value.
Reader could've been a successful company on its own for sure, for example. I wasn't a user of it, but there was enough people who loved it enough.
- xvector 7y agoIt’s a well-deserved reputation. I’m glad it’s sticking
- setr 7y agoHe meant it was stupid that Google let itself gain this reputation; it was easily avoidable
- Tyr42 7y agoI think google builds stuff in a way where it depends on the google stack. That makes it harder to spin off or sell, as you'd basically have to re-write it.
- throw_away 7y agoIf only they had their own externally available cloud service where they could dogfood their stuff on and spin-off could be an account transfer.
- datavirtue 7y agoTrue. I was looking at the list of Google projects that were killed off and realized it was a pool of great ideas for startups. In a lot of cases they were ahead of thier time or could have been pivoted slightly into other products/markets.