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Your experience reminds me of how Google just cancels products, instead of figuring out some way to spin them out. Like maybe pass a product over to Google Vent
by specialist 2y ago
Your experience reminds me of how Google just cancels products, instead of figuring out some way to spin them out. Like maybe pass a product over to Google Ventures. Or set up an incubator.
eg I'm certain that Google Inbox could have been a decent modest company on its own.
I learned from reading u/patio11 that there's a market for buying and selling small businesses. Is it weird that nothing like that has popped up for VCs/investors who want to divest from their non-unicorn companies?
- bluGill 2y agoGoogle can sell projects after or while shutting them down. Make them a large enough offer, and they might bite.
- specialist 2y agoIIRC, one plausible reason for not spinning out products is their dependence on Google's infra. Which, okay, ya, sure. Grant the fledgling a year long grace period to extract itself. Business units are spun out, traded like baseball cards, all the time. Of course, I'd bet the biggest reason against is "Why bother?" Though if Google had been nurturing spinoffs all this time, maybe it could have salvaged it's brand / mindshare.