Google keeps getting voted as the best company to work in Blind but I wonder how they take care of employees when it decides to kill a project (which is quite often). I hear they loathe long term investment in emerging tech (like VR) and end up killing them if it does not produce revenue in a couple years. https://killedbygoogle.com/
Just got to say, every time I see that list I find they killed more products in the past few months than I ever knew Google had.
Surprised they haven’t yet killed the biggest project that has yet to produce revenue in years: GCP
They gave it a runway of about a few more years
I hear writing is on the wall for Stadia as well.
Wondering when chromecast gets killed. 🤔
Not gonna happen anytime soon with how things are going with Google TV
Why would they kill it haha? It’s been insanely successful for them and very low cost…
Don't kill me pls goog 🥺
Chromebook needs to be killed.
Kill chrome, firefox 🔥
Stadia is a pretty big failure. Also the pixel phones aren't that popular and their Chromebooks are overpriced.
VR is dead. Bad example.
How is vr dead? Facebook is going all in to that field
Oculus is on the right path. I just hope big tech like Google invest heavily in AR/VR so that later folks like me from FRL can switch to Google etc. Right now the only major tech apart from FRL that can pay big bucks and all in oN VR is Apple .
Interesting. Lots of killed stuff ended up being successful through a seperate reincarnation of the idea. Ex. "Neighborly" became "Nextdoor"
execution matters
My firm was involved in a Google M&A transaction about 10 years ago. Almost all of the employees of the acquired company were eventually let go.
That's unfortunate. It's like they acquire upcoming companies that have disrupting potential in a niche field and absorb the competition, and eventually kill it. It's like an ameoba
Hmmm Microsoft?