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These tweets are great marketing for his new company Storyworth and I mean that seriously :) No one (well, almost no one) would have known who this guy was and
by credo 10y ago
These tweets are great marketing for his new company Storyworth and I mean that seriously :)
No one (well, almost no one) would have known who this guy was and that a company called Storyworth existed, but now a lot more people will know about it and how the founder is older and wiser now compared to when he was at Google :)
- WKPlus 10y agoCan't agree more.
- justin66 10y agoNot especially, in my opinion. In light of his comments to the effect that Reader was a failure because it didn't achieve 100M users, I'm not even remotely interested in whatever Storyworth is.
- snowwrestler 10y agoWhy? That's not a number he invented, he's saying that that 100m is the user number that would have convinced Google execs to continue funding Reader. The real question--unaddressed in these tweets--is why Google insisted on such a large user base to keep a project going.
- justin66 10y agoThat's fair, and I agree completely. I think I might have misinterpreted his tweet. Which, you know... twitter.
- hkmurakami 10y agoBig companies often have arbitrary guidelines such as "only billion dollar lines of businesses are worth having". In this case 100M users may have been the threshold where $1B/year in revenue from the product was realistic.
- kbenson 10y agoIt seems like a large number, but at Google's scale it might actually be rather small. Google is a large company, and each product is something that takes resources that could be better spent somewhere else. I don't expect Honda or Ford to keep around a car that only sells a few thousand a year, knowing that it requires continual work and refinement, space in their plants to build, space on the lots to sell, and a business strategy. I don't expect Google to act any differently.
- eachro 10y agoBut now you have heard of Storyworth and that's the whole point.
- pawadu 10y agoBut I could never do business with the guy that shut down Google Reader. So who are Storyworths competitors? They can have my money
- earbitscom 10y agoI've actually been a Storyworth user for quite some time and it's a slick service. It has really helped me connect with my grandmother.