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"it's amazing when the business people take over how rational they get focused on short term revenue and lose the long term vision"- on why Excite management wa
by randomfool 12y ago
"it's amazing when the business people take over how rational they get focused on short term revenue and lose the long term vision"- on why Excite management was having difficulty buying PageRank for $350k (or $1.6m, not entirely clear).
I think this is a problem at a number of established tech companies as the management layer evolves.
- sumedh 12y ago> on why Excite management was having difficulty buying PageRank The big money was in portals not search during those days. If I am not mistaken even the Google founders initially had no idea how to monetize it.