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With Dropcam Founder and Technology VP Exits, Nest Restructures Management

• sogen 12y ago
  nest = google
• junto 12y ago
  Side note: Dropcam would be awesome if you could save video to LAN over WiFi, but they insist on cloud. Lots of people buy them thinking you can connect them up as standard IP cameras only to realise you've got to give up your privacy to do do. Nice looking hardware all the same.
• junto 12y ago
  You could try and stop leaks like this by having an email system that makes slightly different tweaks to the textual content, so every version is slightly different. Then after the leak you can copy the text and it gives you back the leaker.
• PhantomGremlin 12y ago
  The article links to another that discusses "culture clashes". E.g. Some of these Glassdoor reviews claim that Nest is “killing everything that was special about working at Dropcam” and that “everything we built is being carelessly dismantled after [the] acquisition.” This acquisition is probably no different than most. Probably about 90% of these kinds of acquisitions fail? What does succeed is when a company buys another to deliberately kill that competing product. That usually makes good business sense. But that wasn't the case here.