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That's not an extraordinary claim at all. It's called marketing. Companies spend millions on it all the time. And it's far from "completely unsubstantiated." S
by nilkn 14y ago
That's not an extraordinary claim at all. It's called marketing. Companies spend millions on it all the time.
And it's far from "completely unsubstantiated." Summly was objectively not very good, and the developer appears to have more family connections than he does raw engineering talent.
Yahoo! has tons of talented engineers working for them who could have easily put together another shoddy summarization app (except Yahoo! isn't even using the app--they're shutting it down). Why would they dish out (reportedly) $30 million for a kid who hasn't even graduated from high school?
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- rdouble 14y agothat's not really how it works
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- argonaut 14y agoYour logic: It's not option 1 or 2 (statement is unsubstantiated - when you say it "was objectively not very good," you really mean "in my opinion it was not very good"). So it must be option 3 (also unsubstantiated), since option 3 is the only option left (unsubstantiated). To answer your last question: 1) As far as I know that kid did not hold any high-ranking role at the company anymore; the talent probably lay elsewhere. 2) There are many reasons and unless your name begins with Marissa and ends with Mayer, you cannot know for sure.