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Very nice and sneaky article. It seems like a cheerleading article at first but if you read to the end you can see the cutting criticism, delivered in a way th
by zhivota 3y ago
Very nice and sneaky article. It seems like a cheerleading article at first but if you read to the end you can see the cutting criticism, delivered in a way that makes perfect sense if you've lived it, but you might even miss much of if you haven't.
I was part of a similar acquisition story and feel many of the same things, but the company was eBay so all the talk about great things wasn't as applicable. Just mostly the bad things.
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- ilrwbwrkhv 3y agoI agree. It really shows that at a large scale it is no longer possible to deliver new value. Google has reached that level. It can only go downhill from here. Albeit very slowly.
- butlike 3y agoLarge animals require large amount of food. It's why there's countless fish but only one humpback whale. The question for Google is: how much are they willing to bet they're the whale and not just a fish that's too big?