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Large tech companies like Google and Meta who primarily focused on innovations are running out of ideas to make more money so they have decided to focus their creativity on cutting cost. They should start by cutting C-suite salary and bonuses
Why don't they (Google) add AI feature to their search? There is so much noise about AI but Google search didn't change much. The same empty landing page and I didn't see any new cool features so far.
The AI might not be optimized to prioritize sponsored content yet.
Google already pretty much has a monopoly on search so them adding AI to it won’t really do much for their revenue.
Alphabet and Meta are advertising companies that also make neat toys. Going forward, the neat toys that don’t deliver ad revenue get less love.
The economy is cyclical. This too shall end at some point.
Y'all act like you never saw a business cycle before
GenZ and Alpha are encountering the word “no” for the first time in their lives. Please be gentle.
Indeed, people who've only ever played on Very Easy mode
SWE will deliver pizza to get by in Silicon valley!!
Can't on H1B
H1B will migrate back home.
This is why you have to get onboard with McKinsey when they are hiring!
Nothing is forever.
In retrospect there will have been so many top indicators it is comical: * General aging. When I was in university in the eart 2010s, Google was "only" 12 years old (public for 6). Now Google is 26 years old, has non-founder leadership. Tech companies age in dog years too, so it's ancient. * New metagame became to become "ex" FAANG and pivot into personal branding, conent creation, and other media. * Interest rate increases * At Google's size and scale, they pretty much need a product everyone will use everyday to justify it as even a possiblility. e.g. maps, gmail, search, a physical phone, a public cloud (still brutally tough apparently).
its literally joever for google. Less so for amazon, meta, and msft since they have business units that can sustain them
Almost 300B/year in revenue, mostly from advertising. How is it over for them? Is advertising dead? What has actually changed wrt their business model?
Ads rely on traffic, if we're directly going to chatgpt website and app instead of Google search. When investors and all see the downward trend of traffic what do you think will happen to stock and ad sales?