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Acquisition back by Google in 3 years, with nothing to show for it. VCs will make a ton.
by tcp_handshaker 3mo ago
Acquisition back by Google in 3 years, with nothing to show for it. VCs will make a ton.
- tgma 3mo agoand... the VC is Google. Gotta compensate them somehow.
- DataDaoDe 3mo agoMy thoughts exactly
- dude250711 3mo agoFor all we know, they could have been successfully working on "10. Prevent Nuclear Terror" for the last 80+ years.
- ex1fm3ta 3mo agoSometimes you got to find a way to buy the silence of your top employee, to prevent them from going to the competition. This "start-up" is shallow as hell
- returnInfinity 3mo agoGoogle stock would drop big if this new company was being funded by competitors
- hiddencost 3mo agoThese people are all already making 9 figure compensation packages, I think if they thought they could do the work they wanted at Google, they would.
- tgma 3mo ago9 figure is hardly enough when some kid sells their vscode fork to them for more, is it? Why not just boomerang and get $$$.
- ghostbrainalpha 2mo agoDid that really happen? What was the fork you are talking about?
- tgma 2mo agoIt was a general metaphor but a reference to Windsurf. On the boomerang side, Noam Shazeer went on to do Character AI and came back via acquisition only to leave again to OpenAI.
- xnx 3mo agoGiven the resources that would be available to them at Google: compute resources, data, etc. It's clear they want absolute freedom. Good for them. At this revolutionary turning point in history, I want the smartest people working in whatever area they want.
- dekhn 3mo agocompute resources are scarce and folks are fighting over scraps at this point.