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This should have (2014) at the end of the title. Very interesting though especially with the hindsight of 7 more years...

• dehrmann 5y ago
  Google's biggest business failing around that era was how far behind they were in cloud computing. GCE only launched in 2013. EC2 launched 2007-ish. In 2014, unless you were paying attention to Amazon, it wasn't obvious how big of a blunder this was, yet.
  • golergka 5y ago
    I'm pretty sure that they had app engine in 2010, I was building a company on it then. Or does it not count as cloud computing?
    • khazhoux 5y ago
      App Engine team was maybe a 5-10 engineers. It wanted to be the next Heroku, whereas AWS aimed to be the infrastructure for all the world's software.
    • deleted 5y ago
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    • dehrmann 5y ago
      They did, but I called out GCE because you're not a serious cloud provider without (virtual) machines you can do what you want with.
  • 6gvONxR4sf7o 5y ago
    I feel like in 2014, at least in my circles, AWS was already a behemoth.
  • ignoramous 5y ago
    > EC2 launched 2007-ish Aug 2006: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWS#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWS#History
• v77 5y ago
  That's what made it kind of an interesting read. All of the 'nicer Larry' projects in the article flopped, from Google+ to wearables to unsupervised learning being useful commercially.