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This is an interesting case of a great team, great idea but no follow through. Question - why does Google want to slap its name on things? Why not just make the
by vagrantJin 6y ago
This is an interesting case of a great team, great idea but no follow through. Question - why does Google want to slap its name on things? Why not just make these things offshoot startups with a little seed money and a lot of shares for said seed money - let it do its thing in the wild and collect a nice cheque if things work out and let it die if things don't workout.
One of the reasons the gaming community and tech in general seemed somewhat repulsed by the Google brand and how they treat their products. At this point, everyone is sliently praying Gmail survives whatever internal war Google has when it comes to axing products.
- Centigonal 6y ago> Why not just make these things offshoot startups with a little seed money and a lot of shares for said seed mone IMO, this is a great idea. Both SAP and IBM do this with acquisitions that didn't take or internal projects that don't line up with the strategic plan, and it works alright for them: see Qualtrics and Acoustic.co The only theory I have for why Google hasn't done this is because they're run by engineers and not finance guys, and they think managing a reorg like that would hurt their momentum. but that's just a guess. > At this point, everyone is sliently praying Gmail survives whatever internal war Google has when it comes to axing products. I don't think we need to worry too much about this, since Google has monetized GMail through GSuite for businesses, universities, etc.
- fomine3 6y agoIs Niantic Google's case?
- Centigonal 6y agoYou're right! I didn't know Niantic started inside Google. And what do you know - it's a successful game studio! We come full circle to Stadia.