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you can, but I am used to using uber app to call an uber.

• mcny 3y ago
  > you can, but I am used to using uber app to call an uber. yes, waze had 100M+ users and still failed to have a successful launch with waze carpool. part of the problem is Google is too successful. If a business makes USD 10M a year and takes up a month worth of attention every year from the Alphabet CEO, they will probably shut it down before we can say Google Product Graveyard.
  • dweekly 3y ago
    When I worked at Google our team came up with a data product that would have been pure margin and $75m/yr with customers lined up -- and I couldn't find a VP interested in cashing the checks because it wasn't on their annual OKRs. Google is a great company but it has never been truly hungry because it has never faced an existential threat.
    • stickyricky 3y ago
      What's the product? Asking for a friend...
    • ghaff 3y ago
      It's not just OKRs. That $75m/year consumes attention all up and down and across Google. Lots of things that are slam dunks at a small or medium company are just more trouble than they're worth at most really large firms.
    • hackernewds 3y ago
      $75m seems like small fish, because it's a really poor monetization $/user, and opportunity cost. Thousands of ideas could generate that at Google. Counterexample, Google Brain didn't make much money, but they still invested in it and spit out Transformers.
  • hackernewds 3y ago
    are you shouting "The Innovator's Dilemma"?