Did the twitch employees make it out well off with the acquisition? He sorta left that details out. Or did you guys get the short end of the stick? @twitch
Google search business model, YouTube & GMaps acquisitions have been so good for such a long time that they have obfuscated the fact that Google is actually not innovating and is in fact spectacularly bad at creating and scaling new products. Bard is pretty embarrassing. What is going on internally...Read more
Why does almost every new Google product fails, either gets cancelled or lose to competitors? Other than the OG search engine and products from before 2010 like gmail and gmap, the most successful products in google are all from acquisitions(YouTube, Android). Have google lost the ability to make cu...Read more
Misses every single earnings estimate. Stock market says bravo and goes up 5%. Earnings per share (EPS): $1.21 vs $1.28 expected, according to Refinitiv Revenue: $69.69 billion vs $69.9 billion expected, according to Refinitiv YouTube advertising revenue: $7.34 billion vs. $7.52 billion expected...Read more
Google lacks a social media presence, Snap lacks good user monetization. The synergy is there: - Google acquires Snap to build its social media presence - combine YouTube Shorts and Snapchat Discover to compete against TikTok - integrate Google account with Snap login to improve user acquisition fu...Read more
You can't meeting and press conference your way to a killer product. That's why very few products at big companies are made when it's not a startup. Google Search - Google was a startup when it made this Google Maps -acquired Microsoft Office -acquired YouTube -acquired Microsoft Windows -first...Read more
Hi Blind team, Any help would be greatly appreciated! I have Sourcing and Category management expertise.#supplychain https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/85770259459384006-category-manager-procurement-mergers-and-acquisitions/?company=Google&company=Google%20Fiber&company=YouTube&employment_...Read more
Anyone know of any great articles or advice for building a multi-sided platform at the beginning of that platform’s life? I’m building a video platform for education (user-generated chunks, kind of like YouTube or TikTok but specific to education vertical) and I’m thinking about early strategy for c...Read more
Currently non-tech role, started about a year ago, before the acquisition was announced. A few months into my role I realized I really don't like what I do, and I've recently started applying and exploring other opportunities. I'd love to work at Google and wait for the acquisition to close, and I ...Read more
Seriously, I thought BD was THE coolest acquisition Google ever did. I was also throughly jealous of Andy Rubin's job where he get to be surrounded by world's best robotics experts to work on moonshot projects in world's most resourceful company. It didn't seem to get better than this. Then he left ...Read more
Was approached for an affiliate marketing position from one of my dream companies. My background is in paid acquisition so I think there’s some cross over. However I’d like to understand how one could successfully scale affiliate campaigns and work with affiliate partners. Will anyone be open to hav...Read more
Amazon is the largest public cloud and largest retailer, has innovated in Drone technology and supply chain. Microsoft is the consumer desktop giant, produces leading Office suite and is the second largest public cloud. Microsoft Research is considered to be #1 in the world. Google is a search eng...Read more
here is just a story about how terrible the management distortion can be inside the company. There's a new manager joined Juniper Networks from acquisition trying to give orders and tasks to people not under his management. This manager has no indepth understanding of what tasks these people have al...Read more
TLDR: Google was grossly negligent with its spending due to its position as monopoly. It continued to look for its next “search” cash cow, instead of nurturing its core revenue driver, and ignoring key threats that it assumed it would not need to address given they found their next cash cow first. T...Read more
TL;DR: Small investors put their money on real estate syndicators .. companies go bust into foreclosure, small investors take the losses while syndicators (admins) keep their fees. I hate too much regulation but is this okay? https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-housing-bust-comes-for-thousands-of-small-...Read more