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I feel like you just cherry picked from my examples. YouTube was certainly successful - Google bought them because their own Google Video competitor was a flop.

• magicalist 6mo ago
  I think there is a difference in at least degree here (maybe in kind, idk) that's lost by lumping them purely on acquisition or not, but I do largely agree with your point. But just wanted to correct for the historical record: > Where 2 had a successful product, it just wasn't web based (nor do I think free), so didn't have anywhere near the distribution that Google enabled once the team ported it to run in a browser. Where 2 did not have a product, successful or not. They were an unreleased demo looking for investors and luckily got into a room with Larry Page of 2004.
  • happymellon 6mo ago
    Indeed, I think they used bad examples as neither Android or Where 2 were successful, but it also shows that Google has done a mix of buying something successful to fill a gap or find someone with a good tech that they help to get over the line and make successful. Meta has not shown the second part.
• happymellon 6mo ago
  I "cherry picked" from your examples because they weren't really good examples. You said > buying a successful business and keeping it successful for over a decade. Meta bought already successful companies. Google has purchased successful businesses, but they also purchased companies that weren't and managed to get them into massive money makers.