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Re: Api.ai is joining Google

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Post by hiou »

_pius wrote: post #34
kchoudhu wrote: post #4

I'm assuming Google doesn't need any of the company's business, and that it is being acquired for its talent. So, my real question: how much, on average, does a founder get as part of one of these acquihires? And does s/he actually, y'know, have to do any work after getting paid?

I'm assuming Google doesn't need any of the company's business, and that it is being acquired for its talent. I wouldn't assume that. Developer-friendly natural language APIs will only become more important over the next few years.

How's firebase going these days?

Edit: I should add Firebase could have(and should have) been the next PHP/Access. Could have solved almost every SMB business custom software need in a way that a business could go from front-end to front-end and never get locked into another 1,000 crud app for XYZ vertical. Could have wiped it all out. Firebase could have become the data store of the internet. Then Google showed up....

Re: Api.ai is joining Google

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Post by ben_jones »

aswanson wrote: post #88
anon_123 wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Snapchat does this when they try to acquire companies.

Hilarious. We've reached a place where a doctorate in CS is an insufficient qualification to delete a fucking file.

IMO the pendulum swings both ways. I'd bet money many a PHD could not delete a file properly.

Re: Api.ai is joining Google

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Post by ben_jones »

hiou wrote: post #91
_pius wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm assuming Google doesn't need any of the company's business, and that it is being acquired for its talent. I wouldn't assume that. Developer-friendly natural language APIs will only become more important over the next few years.

How's firebase going these days? Edit: I should add Firebase could have(and should have) been the next PHP/Access. Could have solved almost every SMB business custom software need in a way that a business could go from front-end to front-end and never get locked into another 1,000 crud app for XYZ vertical. Could have wiped it all out. Firebase could have become the data store of the internet. Then Google showed up..…

Firebase uses a non-relational database correct? Shouldn't they then run into issues with problems that do not lend well to non-relational databases? I don't see how Firebase could have been anywhere near as pervasive as PHP.

Re: Api.ai is joining Google

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Post by slackoverflower »

aswanson wrote: post #88
anon_123 wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Snapchat does this when they try to acquire companies.

Hilarious. We've reached a place where a doctorate in CS is an insufficient qualification to delete a fucking file.

I have heard that Facebook also has a rigorous screening process for acquihires too, and people get sent away althought with a generous severance package.

Re: Api.ai is joining Google

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Post by rorykoehler »

octaveguin wrote: post #35

Does this signal a continued push for bots and conversational UX? Where does the belief in the tech come from? Are there any examples of real success with this tech? Bots can't solve discovery in a novel way without big advances in NLP. There doesn't seem to be a bridge from here to there where it makes sense as a user. Is this just irrational exuberance? I'd love to understand why microsoft/google/facebook are all c…

I know of a few large scale projects successfully implementing conversational UX with huge economies of scale. Most of the customers haven't even realised they are talking to bots.

Re: Api.ai is joining Google

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Post by 6nf »

fizixer wrote: post #69
anaskar wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

from what I've seen at Google specifically, when hiring for team talent, acquihires are typically performed in a binary fashion -- they take everybody who wants to go, without going through the regular screening process. n = 1

After reading your comment multiple times, I have no idea what you said.

His answer is 'no they do not have to pass the normal Google screening'
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