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Founder who sold company to Google says tech giant has slowly ceased to function

• metadat 4y ago
  Discussed at the source yesterday: The maze is in the mouse: what ails Google https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34799308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34799308 (300 comments)
• baridbelmedar 4y ago
  Interesting, it's somewhat surprising that he's the one saying this...I still don't get why Google chose to buy AppSheet. There were far better options available for them to buy. In my opinion, it would have been better for Google to acquire FlutterFlow or something similar instead.
  • garganzol 4y ago
    Being acquired by Google is a synonym of being extinguished. See Sparrow (email client).
    • more_corn 4y ago
      It’s curious then that google still acquires companies. Surely someone has seen the writing on the wall and would decide to stop throwing good money after bad.
      • fzzzy 4y ago
        The point is to kill potential future competition
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• malfist 4y ago
  This is 100% expected. That's the cycle for companies. You get a golden goose, you elect a CEO that will put in place bureaucracy to keep anyone from cooking it.
• justinclift 4y ago
  > there is still immense respect for Google in the external world Wow, not among anyone I know, even outside IT.