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The thing about Google money is that a dollar Google gives you is worth one dollar. Personally, I would evaluate "Google" money based on the numbers.
by drewcrawford 18y ago
The thing about Google money is that a dollar Google gives you is worth one dollar.
Personally, I would evaluate "Google" money based on the numbers.
- ajross 18y agoIndeed. From the perspective of a developer, I can see not wanting your baby to be ignored in a corporate bureaucracy. But investors don't normally think that way. I don't know what founders are "supposed" to think here, but if it were me I'd take the money and find a new baby if I had to.
- andreyf 18y agoI don't know what founders are "supposed" to think here Founders are supposed to take into consideration their product's role after acquisition when they're talking about getting bought out? This isn't rocket science - once you sell your company to Google (or whomever), you don't own it anymore. That's why you get all those shiny coins.
- jlogic77 18y agoI wonder what types of questions the founders are asking of Google pre-aquisition? As a founder, I would think you are concerned with what is Google's "vision" for your product/company. I could also see just the shiny things being enough to make me not worry about the vision. Also, there are successes. Writely - > Google Docs seemed to be a pretty big success. I'm sure there are others.
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- Timothee 18y agoKeyhole -> Google Earth was a big success too. The thing is that we tend to forget the successes a little bit because they got to merge so well with Google. Looking at the list of acquisitions on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_acquisitions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_acquisitions), I can only think about Blogger but I have no experience on if it changed for the best. As far as I can tell, it looks like it's still working fine.
- mariorz 18y agoApplied Semantics -> AdSense, AdWords
- neilk 18y agoYeah, Writely is a great counterexample. Their vision and Google's vision were really close, so they integrated well into Docs. And just to show you that technical issues are not the primary problem, they were using Windows/C# but managed to port to Google's Linux/Java-based infrastructure and login system very quickly. (Granted, C# is way closer to Java than PHP).