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Theres a reason why theres a grave yard of Google's dead projects. Its annoying that software is such a high gross margin industry - I would love to see Google
by rhetocj23 1y ago
Theres a reason why theres a grave yard of Google's dead projects.
Its annoying that software is such a high gross margin industry - I would love to see Googles cash get taken away so they cant take these vanity projects.
- golem14 1y agoThere's a _huge_ cottage industry of edu apps and programs that are both hugely expensive and not better at teaching, consuming a lot VC and end user $$$. As a first step, this seems not bad at all. I do agree that it would be better to dial in on a pupil's interest than the grade level (my kid may be 7th grade in English but 9th grade in Chemistry, for instance.) [Edit: fix typo]
- blibble 1y agoif the US government had done its job and split google's monopolistic ad business into what should be 4 different companies, then we wouldn't have this problem
- rhetocj23 1y agoThe average ROIC is doing a nice job in compensating for their awful marginal ROIC.