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Two team-centric acquisitions that Google has made in recent years: Aardvark and Slide. Both were cases of products that were mostly ahead of their time or just
by inmygarage 15y ago
Two team-centric acquisitions that Google has made in recent years: Aardvark and Slide. Both were cases of products that were mostly ahead of their time or just-off re: product-market fit, and had genius teams. As far as I know, the majority of both teams are still at Google.
- bproper 15y agoMax Levchin left Google and Aardvark was shut down. Google had Foursquare in house (called Dodgeball) but couldn't execute. Android is the best counter-example I can think of.
- joshu 15y agomax levchin -> slide max ventilla -> aardvark
- cyen 15y agoVery little of the Aardvark team is left at Google, and those who are are scattered across different teams.
- brown9-2 15y agoWhat has become of the Slide properties that Google inherited? What do they do with Slide stuff now?