April 16, 2007
dens + alex quit google..Google’s track record on acquisition is atrocious. Big companies need to expect to pour resources into tiny acquisition, or whats the point. (I’m looking at you Yahoo!)
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(Aside, corporation, dodgeball, google, twitter) You're reading Laughing Meme, personal website of Kellan Elliott-McCrea.
I tend to write about books, coffee, the Web, open source, collaboration technologies and XML.
I spend most of my days writing code, and occasionally fomenting dissent.
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I’m still a little burned by the TechCrunch review a few weeks ago that picked Dodgeball over Twitter. This event seems obvious.
I heard the Cisco M&A guys on a podcast once talk about the rational reasons for doing acquisitions and the process they have for retaining acquired employees. They claimed 70% retention of those employees over a 15 year period. The secret seemed to be to have a real business reason for acquiring the company in the first place. Things came naturally after that.
Tony that had to be one of the worst TC articles ever, maybe them seem really out of touch. (which has got to be bad for their brand!)
I’m bummed about this because Dens+Alex are the kind of crazy/creative/cool folks you want to believe can prosper inside of a big co, but another blow to that idea.