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I'm with you on everything except the Twitter part. Google doesn't leave most acquisitions alone - YouTube is a notable exception, and I'm really curious how t

I'm with you on everything except the Twitter part. Google doesn't leave most acquisitions alone - YouTube is a notable exception, and I'm really curious how they've been able to more independently than most Google acquisitions. (Perhaps implicit trust placed in Susan Wojcicki?) We have no reason to think that Twitter wouldn't have become the same kind of mess Google Plus did under Google's stewardship.

cletus 4y ago
Youtube is an outlier but Google generally doesn't mess with success (IME) of substantial acquisitions. Youtube has their own culture (so much so that they call themselves "Youtubers" not "Googlers" and have (had?) their own campus). Android too were deliberately kept separate. Not that it was an acquisition but Chrome too had its own culture and codebase. Buying things and killing them only seems to happen with smaller talent acquisitions (eg Sparrow, Urchin).
- htrp 4y ago
  Crying for Waze over here