2007JUN211315
'... Will the founders survive at the Googleplex for long? ...'
&& '... second service I know of (after Youtube) that Google's acquired despite already having internal teams working on a product ...'
I was wondering about this as well, then I read this post. It must have an impact on the 'engineers' who work there having groups of buyouts with vesting periods and larger payouts. There must be some level of resentment (it's human nature). How does google manage this?
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'... in some way after the acquisition you became a 'worker' for Google with much less freedom ...'
In some ways post - acquisition isn't, 'job-done'. It makes more sense to see the task through integration in the new company. It is still your baby and I'll bet anyone working on it would see it that way. At the same time It would make sense also to give yourself a cut-off date working for soft-co.
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'... The smart money is saying this is a build, not a buy. ...' ~ TC, April 17, 2007 ~ http://tinyurl.com/yo99gh
So if you make things that other want, did zenter purposefully make it's product to fill the gap in google office? If so it's a risky (ballsy) strategy to compete head to head with google if they have announced their intentions. What I want to know is what happened in the following 2 months?
Was zenter X times better than the internal google version?
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2007JUN211315
'... Will the founders survive at the Googleplex for long? ...'
&& '... second service I know of (after Youtube) that Google's acquired despite already having internal teams working on a product ...'
I was wondering about this as well, then I read this post. It must have an impact on the 'engineers' who work there having groups of buyouts with vesting periods and larger payouts. There must be some level of resentment (it's human nature). How does google manage this?
continued ...
'... in some way after the acquisition you became a 'worker' for Google with much less freedom ...'
In some ways post - acquisition isn't, 'job-done'. It makes more sense to see the task through integration in the new company. It is still your baby and I'll bet anyone working on it would see it that way. At the same time It would make sense also to give yourself a cut-off date working for soft-co.
continued ...
'... The smart money is saying this is a build, not a buy. ...' ~ TC, April 17, 2007 ~ http://tinyurl.com/yo99gh
So if you make things that other want, did zenter purposefully make it's product to fill the gap in google office? If so it's a risky (ballsy) strategy to compete head to head with google if they have announced their intentions. What I want to know is what happened in the following 2 months?
Was zenter X times better than the internal google version?
next >>>