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well I I guess if they're going to have to pay sales tax they might as well go all in right CU that's what's going to happen
Quora will be an acquisition target for a major tech company.
What happened: Quora remained an independent company and was never acquired by a major tech company as of 2023.
Verify at source ↗I mean you know Apple being the most obvious most closed apple apple and Facebook are the closed ones
Google is a much better deal Google you buy better share yeah you be better of buying Google there's a lot more business behind the Google valuation than there is behind the Facebook valuation
I think it's a wealth transfer from I'll say the investors to the engineers
so AOL said let me leak it for 400 million and see if people or fall over it
actually I can confirm that AOL was the second one because they actually have confirmed it in the Press
they're platform agnostic which Google is not... they didn't have to carry the baggage of having to shove Google Plus down people's throat
this is a sign of the success and the ubiquity of a product that people are complaining about they also shut down somebody who is taking donations for some like really good cause you know this a sign of how ubiquitous PayPal has finally become that everybody
in a way Amazon has had a tremendous tremendous advantage over local retailers and Mom and Pops because there's no tax right there's no tax and centralized inventory centralized shipping shipping fulfillment the whole thing and now they have this thing
well I I guess if they're going to have to pay sales tax they might as well go all in right CU that's what's going to happen
Matt Cuts is a great guy he's friends with a lot of the people at this table but he tells you if you have a penalty or not it's very binary ... the thing that they I believe they need is another person in there who will say hey let's discuss this month five search results
I will say I was in a conversation with somebody you know inside of Google and that they said a product manager made that call
I believe that all the evidence right now is that with panda they put what I call the thumb on the scale that they're overriding the algorithm and saying we like this site we don't like that site we're changing the rules
I told the highest up people in Google was I don't trust Google anymore because they're not transparent enough about the changes
AOL came out with additions which was surprisingly good and I think that there's an art in these companies of letting product teams build stuff and getting out of their way and I think Yahoo is trying to figure that out certainly AOL has started to figure it out with a couple of good product launches
if you look at inflection points on the curve that was one of those big things all of a sudden nobody thought about the business anymore they thought about where they were going to live and there was this massive debate going on are we a Content company or are we a services company are we going to improve our email client improve search uh improve you know photo sharing or are we going to come up with puppets reading the news you know and and that was like this this big religious debate
I said to the AOL guys you guys should go home tonight and get down on your knees and thank God that Yahoo is so stupid because they just destroyed the company and because everybody starts woring about do I have to move to LA where making public kids in school that's what destroyed yaho
it's great to see that they're finally admitting they are a content and services company but their their head of product Blake Irving is awesome i' I've known him personally for a lot of years ever long before I ever got into even Tech and I think if anyone's got a chance to help really spur an effort to build amazing products within Yahoo he's going to do it