David Rosenthal: commitment

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…All right, so that was one. The other one is they make tons of small acquisitions famously. that run in the 2010s, aside from the big ones, from YouTube, from Android, from DoubleClick, from AdMob, there was also what became Google groups, Spreadsheets, Docs, Blogger. They bought applied Semantics with the patents and some of the tech for AdSense. They bought the technology for Google Maps, they bought urchin for Google Analytics, dodgeball, feed burner, recaptcha, slide, [inaudible:03:51:46], like.com, wide vine, add meld, punched, Zagg it, Sparrow, Wave, I could just keep going. Oh yeah. There are hundreds of companies they bought in talking to folks in the research. There was this amazing part of Google culture that also fit the strategy perfectly of, help the web and the rich web and web apps bloom, come work at Google with these incredible people. Meet your co-founders. Go start a startup, leave Google. We will then reacquire you back into Google in a couple of years. It happened dozens or hundreds of times.…

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