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Google did everything right in terms of local execution to get all the required licensure and top talent, and then Sergey threw it away.
by solaarphunk 2y ago
Google did everything right in terms of local execution to get all the required licensure and top talent, and then Sergey threw it away.
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoBoth founders having grown up in communist block countries supposedly had something to do with their aversion. At least that’s what I heard (was working for MS china back then).
- est 2y agoAnd the worst part of a Communism is "planned economy", e.g. the state decides which app/service is good or not.
- wiseowise 2y agoSurely planned economy was the worst part and not repressions and millions dead under red boot.
- est 2y agothe reason behind millions of death because the grain rationing system leaving little to none food for peasants in the 1960s, yeah it's still economical issue. Bad things happen when the state controls everything.
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoThere was the PLA hacking gmail accounts in Hong Kong also, which supposedly was why Google stopped playing nice in the first place.
- est 2y agoIt's a rogue state after all.
- kelnos 2y agoThe US banning a foreign-owned service from operating on its soil (when that foreign country bans many US-based services from operating on their soil) is not a "planned economy". Please don't use low-effort, bad-faith arguments.
- tgma 2y agoLarry grew up in Michigan... a communist country? (As I heard it, the legend is mostly attributed to Sergey pushing for it, and every time I've heard Eric talk about it it felt there was some disdain there, so I would agree with you that Larry was probably convinced also, otherwise Sergey alone wouldn't have pulled it off.)