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The first sentence is quite telling >We’ve got amazing talent, world-class compute and products… Products are third on the list. Google is an incubator for ta
by 650 1mo ago
The first sentence is quite telling
>We’ve got amazing talent, world-class compute and products…
Products are third on the list. Google is an incubator for talent first and foremost. Products are an afterthought
- cj 1mo agoThis is also how Y Combinator operates. Founders are first. Ideas are second.
- add-sub-mul-div 1mo agoIf these products are the place that talent has brought us, of what use was the talent?
- giwook 1mo agoMy opinion is that you're reading way too much into this. Talent is obviously first. Without that you have no products worth speaking of.
- thewebguyd 1mo agoHasn't that always been the case with Google? Outside of a few that are mostly good and have stuck around, I've always seen Google has having great tech but being quite bad and making products out of it.
- garlic_enjoyer 1mo agoI was about to invest in Google, but your compelling observation has swayed me. Now it's obvious to me they are a dying company.
- giwook 1mo agoGuess I'm not taking out a second mortgage on my house anymore to invest in $GOOG.
- JacobAsmuth 1mo agoSo then it is similarly telling that compute is second on the list? They have more talent than compute? Layoffs incoming?
- zdragnar 1mo agoA company is made up of people, and makes products. Products can come and go for many reasons (or any reason) but the company will always have people.
- bonsai_bar 1mo agoI'd bet my mortgage that if the first sentence was "We've got amazing products, amazing talent, and world-class compute", you'd be in the comments complaining that they didn't put talent first.
- Terr_ 1mo agoIt just tells you about their intended audience: Investors rather than consumers. Nowadays, every company—even huge ones—prefers to be seen as a "growth opportunity", so they are trying to play up their ability to create new products which will somehow be so incredible that the line keeps moving up forever. That said, there is definitely a correlation between companies chasing new products and leaving old ones to become crap.
- killerstorm 1mo agoGoogle's revenue is 10x up in the last 10 years.