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> you could've hired 250 highly paid full time developers > for 1 year for that cash Ok, let's imagine you got $60 million and hired 250 engineers. What do y
by rimantas 14y ago
> you could've hired 250 highly paid full time developers
> for 1 year for that cash
Ok, let's imagine you got $60 million and hired 250 engineers.
What do you do now?
- confluence 14y agoYou do realise that the vast majority of Google's products and moneymakers were developed bottom up. Let the developers work on what they wish valve style. You are hiring them for their brains and initiative you know.
- riffraff 14y ago[citation needed]
- confluence 14y agoAds were the work of engineers who thought that they'd work better than corporate search that Google first started to monetize. So were Adsense, the ad auction mechanics and the Dutch auction for the IPO. http://adwords.blogspot.com.au/2005/08/adwords-history-lesson.html?m=1 http://adwords.blogspot.com.au/2005/08/adwords-history-lesso... http://publishing2.com/2008/05/27/google-adwords-a-brief-history-of-online-advertising-innovation/ http://publishing2.com/2008/05/27/google-adwords-a-brief-his... That's most of the revenue.
- philjohn 14y agoAlso any projects that have come out of 20% time.
- confluence 14y agoFor example Glass and the Autonomous car.