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Regardless of the validity of the business case Sridhar is a really really smart guy who has seen how the sausage is made inside Google. If you think like a Goo
by robk 6y ago
Regardless of the validity of the business case Sridhar is a really really smart guy who has seen how the sausage is made inside Google. If you think like a Google engineering VP you can understand why this isn't such a crazy bet after all. He knows how to rebuild the Google stack fresh.
- onethought 6y agoI don't understand how that is even possible. The layers between a Engineering VP and the actual technology stack that runs thing must be vast... Googles secret sauce isn't the layers, but the actual implementation of each layer.... is Sridhar that level of smart?
- serial_dev 6y agoHe might not be that smart that he alone can rebuild Google from scratch (now that I've said that, it sounds even more obvious), but he might have the skills to find and hire the people who do. I think at "Engineering VP" level, coding and knowing all the low-level details might not be the most important skill.
- onethought 6y agoSure, but “to compete with google” that is the skills you need... think about how they started. If the solution is: “I know who to hire” then anyone is smart enough to compete with any company... just hire the same people from the competition.
- quantumofalpha 6y agoGoogle's secret sauce are its users. They get many billions queries a day and feedback on what urls all those users click - simply throw all that into modern ML and you'll end up with pretty decent ranking already. A small startup, especially a paywalled one, will just starve for data and has little hope to compete here - that's why they'll be buying results from bing for the foreseeable future.
- onethought 6y agoSure if we gloss over the fact google invented those ML techniques.
- robk 6y agoin short, yes. he's been there long enough to understand all the stacks.