Google to Acquire Looker

Post by ddalex » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 2:40 PM UTC

lmkg wrote: post #59

jedberg wrote: post #58

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YouTube?

DoubleClick?

Post by joeldo » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 2:42 PM UTC

mirceal wrote: post #56

buremba wrote: post #40

Hey all, as a potential competitor of Looker, I'm not sure how I should feel about this news. :) Here are some of the facts: 1. When Google acquired Alooma, they slowed down the development and dropped the support for other destinations such as Redshift and Hive. Even though Alooma is a data pipeline tool which makes it similar to Looker's case, the deal was $150M (compared to $2.6B) so I'm not sure the comparison ma…

you should feel pretty good. i’ve yet to see a product acquired by google that did well after.

Post by streblo » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 2:49 PM UTC

mirceal wrote: post #56

buremba wrote: post #40

Hey all, as a potential competitor of Looker, I'm not sure how I should feel about this news. :) Here are some of the facts: 1. When Google acquired Alooma, they slowed down the development and dropped the support for other destinations such as Redshift and Hive. Even though Alooma is a data pipeline tool which makes it similar to Looker's case, the deal was $150M (compared to $2.6B) so I'm not sure the comparison ma…

you should feel pretty good. i’ve yet to see a product acquired by google that did well after.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 2:50 PM UTC

anbop wrote: post #60

mirceal wrote: post #56

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you should feel pretty good. i’ve yet to see a product acquired by google that did well after.

YouTube, Android, Applied Semantics, DoubleClick, 510 Systems... you haven’t been looking very hard.

Post by chkuendig » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 2:50 PM UTC

jon-wood wrote: post #7

I'm curious to see how Google handle acquiring a company which requires some fairly high touch sales. Looker is a fantastic tool, but its not something which is useful from day one, and at least currently has a high enough price tag attached to it that they involve a lot of sales engineering in getting new customers to a point where they're able to query data they care about.