WEBVTT - UL Google Current State A Waste of Money & Talent

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<v S1>Google is shutting down its URL shortening service, so any

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<v S1>links created with it will stop working. If you have

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<v S1>any important links using the service, you want to migrate them.

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<v S1>I'm pretty sure Google will soon sell YouTube to like

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<v S1>Johnson and Johnson and Gmail to Luxottica, and then go

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<v S1>full speed into the what the f are we doing business?

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<v S1>Whatever business that is, it's the single most perplexing company

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<v S1>like I've ever seen. They were first on Gen AI.

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<v S1>They wrote the paper for Transformers, and now they're completely

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<v S1>lapped by not just OpenAI, but anthropic as well. And

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<v S1>now they're being lapped by meta, by meta in an

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<v S1>open source model. How are you like fifth place when

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<v S1>you have all the people and all the money and

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<v S1>you actually invented the tech? They're like the opposite of Cloudflare,

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<v S1>which does small things really well that add up over

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<v S1>time because Google is like slowly dismantling everything. It's getting

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<v S1>rid of all the best things that it has. The

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<v S1>main thing Google is growing is the Google graveyard. Such

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<v S1>a colossal waste of money and talent. And these failures

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<v S1>should be studied for centuries. As an example of what

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<v S1>happens when you don't lead with UX focused product management.

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<v S1>Product management, like being in charge, like thinking about the

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<v S1>customer and the total package and the total experience of

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<v S1>this product or service that you're launching, as opposed to

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<v S1>throw shit at the wall. Focused engineering and engineering is

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<v S1>in charge of product. It makes no sense whatsoever. Like

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<v S1>it is the most inefficient, like large organization I can

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<v S1>imagine that I've ever seen.