The Google experience
February 4, 2008 by alex
This post that popped up today does the best job yet at summing up the experience Dennis and I had bringing dodgeballl to Google. It does so through the lens of highlighting different approaches to integrating acquisitions at Google and Yahoo. You can guess which one this one came from:
… I refered to Dodgeball when asking one of the main acquistions guys about their policy and the likely fate of acquisitions after the jump. He was keen to emphasise that they enter a process to learn as much as possible from the entrepreneur about their vision for the project so that they can work out a mutually satisfying game plan going forward.
This was in response to a post detailing Jaiku’s apparent abandonment within google:
Tags: dodgeball, google, jaikuJaiku has a strong community and a nice feel to it and while people can still sign up via invites most of the public still won’t avail that way. Anyway, I left this week as the service is really awful and there is no fresh blood and am sure many more feel the same. Their blog has been dead too since they were purchased. It’s understandable in a way that Google would get these guys sooner rather an expensive later but jeez, why let it die? Just so Yahoo! or Microsoft could not build it out?
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