Congrats to the BufferBox team!
Google acquires BufferBox (YC S12)
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#12This reminded me of Jessica Livingston's presentation. One of the monster were the big companies who would 'aquihire' you early on.
If you're a company like BufferBox, the best possible thing to happen to you would be to get acquired by another company, and Google is probably second or third best behind a company already in the logistics industry.
Logistics is hard, and I don't say that about a lot of things.
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#13>Eventually the company plans to charge $3 or $4 per package. Wow, not sure that was ever going to be feasible. Won't be an issue now that Google bought them. Good for them!
Yes, especially since products like Amazon Locker are free
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#14I don't know about you but I want to see a buffer box setup where one of the lockers just says "I'm feeling Lucky" :-)
Edit: and given a game of chance, and games in general. I wonder if anyone at Google has considered combining BufferBox with Ingress such that as you're playing the game if you 'win' a power up it is in the form of Google schwag in a locker, where the open code and which locker appears on your augmented reality glasses to claim your 'prize'.
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#15This reminded me of Jessica Livingston's presentation. One of the monster were the big companies who would 'aquihire' you early on.
This doesn't sound like an aquihire where the product usually dies and the team disperses. Sounds like a regular acquisition - ie Google wants the team to continue working on their product but have it integrated with the rest of Google.
Congrats on the team, to me it sounds like Google wants BB to become a major point of contact between Google and it's customers.
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#16Wow....never saw this one coming.
This could be awesome. Congrats guys. Look forward to seeing what the future holds.
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#17One of the best possible outcomes: very cool new business idea, continues operating, backed by Google, with founders compensated for the risk they took launching it. Awesome news. Congratulations!
It's not a new idea. We've had them running in my country (Denmark) for the last five years at least. They are everywhere.
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#19Congrats! We have a few of them here in the Communitech Hub in Kitchener/Waterloo. Our CEO swears by them :)
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#20One of the best possible outcomes: very cool new business idea, continues operating, backed by Google, with founders compensated for the risk they took launching it. Awesome news. Congratulations!
It's not a new idea. We've had them running in my country (Denmark) for the last five years at least. They are everywhere.
Oh! Sorry, I stand corrected. BOOO, BUFFERBOX. BURN IN HELL!!