Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead
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Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead
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#2Someday, Google will be a business school case study on the dangers of a) having all your money come from one cash cow and b) having too many self-directed engineers with no management vision. Google is a car with a 1,000 horsepower engine but which can't drive in a straight line.
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#3Someday, Google will be a business school case study on the dangers of a) having all your money come from one cash cow and b) having too many self-directed engineers with no management vision. Google is a car with a 1,000 horsepower engine but which can't drive in a straight line.
this study exists! it's called the resource curse, it's about (I think) weird inflation effects that happen when all your wealth comes from a natural resource like oil
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#4love the cross-outs section
youtube remains un-crossed, but it will be replaced by better offerings in core categories: vloggers, how-to / structured / lego, and music / covers
love that this person is privacy-conscious but is making 'purchase' decisions based on the fact that the products just suck now
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#5They also lost the trust of their users. They didn't drop the "don't be evil" for nothing..
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#7Someday, Google will be a business school case study on the dangers of a) having all your money come from one cash cow and b) having too many self-directed engineers with no management vision. Google is a car with a 1,000 horsepower engine but which can't drive in a straight line.
this study exists! it's called the resource curse, it's about (I think) weird inflation effects that happen when all your wealth comes from a natural resource like oil
Ha!
Google as an oil emirate is not a bad mental model. Thanx!
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#8For Google Translate you should check out DeepL https://www.deepl.com/translator
It's absolutely insane, blows GT right out of the water with its accuracy.
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#9> It’s amazing how they have four monopolies and only monetize one of them.
They appear to me to have begun monetizing google maps. And it is awful.
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#10Someday, Google will be a business school case study on the dangers of a) having all your money come from one cash cow and b) having too many self-directed engineers with no management vision. Google is a car with a 1,000 horsepower engine but which can't drive in a straight line.
Seems like it is easier for a smaller group of capable people to make a big change than a giant org of diverse talented people from different backgrounds