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by bushbaba 4y ago
People skills. Intelligent AI/ML might replace how things are built. But someone still has to determine what to build and how it’s designed.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
And great for Walmart who’s not charging for deliveries above 35$ with Walmart plus.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Wrong Amit. You are thinking about the google search Amit. That’s a different google exec.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
It’s a bit of both. Culturally it didn’t get enterprise, e.g. “ditch oracle and move to spanner”. Technology wise it was not setup for enterprise. Staff wise it was paying way too high of a total-comp for non revenue roles. TAMs making 400k
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by bushbaba 4y ago
I wonder if remote work is attributed to it. HCOL puts a lot of financial stress on you, leading to a need to work hard to keep the standard of living. Mortgage + daycare + food is easily near 10k/month for many. With remote work you c
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Pichai never fully supported google cloud either. The fact google cloud exists is thanks to Amit Singh’s leadership. Palo Alto networks is lucky to have such a visionary CBO at their helm.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Mostly in California given we decriminalized petty theft. Even if the cops catch the guy they cannot enter the house or do much else
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Hostile takeover isn’t a change of ownership. It’s the same company just taken private by someone like Bain and capital…. Likely then gutted for max profitability.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Hostile takeover? If intel’s market cap drops enough someone might decide to buy them out
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Here is one such example. Albiet not from the latest round of layoffs, and occuring a few years ago https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/linkedins-ceo-gives-14-m...
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by bushbaba 4y ago
100% disagree. I've talked with many of those providers and their CSuites are actually behind the open ecosystem. You forget many of them have huge marketshare to gain by having an open ecosystem
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Where did DD stop the merge. I just saw them simply state that the reviewer didn't want to review it as they work at Datadog. It could simply be that they are biased TO merge it even if it contains flaws. Having an independent reviewer
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Yet they were hiring all not too long ago
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Human mistakes also happen. How frequently do humans mess up compared chatGPT becomes an interesting question.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Apple Maps leverages yelp for reviews which is a better dataset than google reviews. And just like above said, google is optimizing for ad revenue not user experience. This opens the door for a competitor to swoop in and offer better result
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by bushbaba 4y ago
No where near enough radiation. See the inverse square law.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
If they adopted chatgpt, you wouldn’t get the ads to links and their entire monetization strategy would need to change. I’m sure many at google brought up the technology as disruptive but leadership didn’t want to take the revenue hit. It’s
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Amazon makes more on shopping ads than google now. You could say google is no longer in first position for shopping search. Reddit is chipping away the Q&A search, but time will tell if it has a similar downfall to quora/yahoo-answ
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Twitter also lost more than half its revenue in past due to those cuts. Not sure I’d call that running fine
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Their staffing is off by that much though. The bulk of google is working on non revenue non profitable ventures
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by bushbaba 4y ago
But it is beneficial for a smaller competitor to slowly chip away. Meanwhile googles investors might rather the legacy company return value to shareholders with greater dividends/share repurchases. While the new competitor is given bla
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by bushbaba 4y ago
You had that due to poor C-Suite leadership. A good C-Suite would have noticed the in-fighting, and re-organized the group into a single threaded leader who is a benevolent dictator. Google's disfunction is due to the lack of clear org
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by bushbaba 4y ago
ChatGPT has a real chance of disrupting Google Search. Heck I'd say OpenAI's generative art models could even disrupt google images search.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Most won’t. The assisted living centers will, and the workers at the facilities. Assisted living is a money pit, and most boomers aren’t sitting on massive amounts of wealth.
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Housing is more expensive today than it was in the past. Sure they might have gotten an expensive mortgage but what's the alternative if you want to start a family? Shame on the boomer generation for continually prioritizing their gene
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Google builds well polished products that work well. The issue is that their product strategy is bad due to the company’s culture. For example stadia as a technology and product usage wise was great. However the product placement, market gr
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by bushbaba 4y ago
Google is likely not better at managing their money than investors. But once you issue dividends there is an expectation the dividend amount remains. Google did do share buybacks which is generally a more efficient way to return money back
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by bushbaba 4y ago
This isn’t googles first layoff. This is their first mass layoff
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by bushbaba 4y ago
A120 was never considered important to google innovation strategy. In fact what did it accomplish for the business. Google would have a better roi giving the money to Google Ventures or a16z. Or starting a private equity like firm adding no
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by bushbaba 4y ago
He’s thoughtful

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