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Who is in charge of acquisitions at Google? Not to say that there isn't awesome tech behind Aardvark, but really 2 ex-Google buyouts in as many days? If I were
by mattiss 17y ago
Who is in charge of acquisitions at Google? Not to say that there isn't awesome tech behind Aardvark, but really 2 ex-Google buyouts in as many days? If I were a shareholder in Google I would be wondering...
Work at Google -> Make friends with your boss -> Build start-up -> Cash in on nepotism?
- myared 17y agoI thought the same thing.
- unohoo 17y ago>> Build start-up -> Cash in on nepotism? Calling it as nepotism is quite unfair, dont you think ? Both are quite awesome products. Even if these acquisitions might be made for the talent, it might be worth it for Goog.
- mattiss 17y agoI was not making a value judgment on these acquisitions. However as Google is a publicly traded company, if I were a shareholder I would want to know if my money is being paid to friends of decision makers. It would be interesting to see how many of Google's acquisitions have involved ex-Googlers?
- zaidf 17y agoI would also like to know about the quality/valuation diffrence between ex goog startups and non ex goog startups. May be ex googlers build better startups? a lot of ex paypalers made solid new companies. Had paypal acquired them I don't think we'd be criticizing them.
- tonystubblebine 17y agoThere's got to be a premium though for knowing if the founders of a company are going to fit in and be productive.
- vsingh 17y agoHere's another way to look at it: not only do they get their employees to spend 20% of their time working on their own cool stuff for Google, they have ex-employees spending 100% of their time working on their own cool stuff for Google. :)
- ciupicri 17y agoYeah, but for what price?
- novicecoder 17y agoThey've been doing it on Wall St. forever..... why not?