Google Wave
product on 9 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes · said 17 times in 11 episodes since 2023
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the Startup Ideas Podcast 1 
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2023 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- What AI means for your product strategy | Paul Adams (CPO of Intercom)
- AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI)
- Ep 61: High School Dropout to Billion-Dollar Startup; the Story of Guillermo Rauch & Vercel · Joe Lonsdale
- Ep. #2: Secrets of Social Media Success, Mental Health & Distribution Hacks - 3 OGs Reveal All · Nikhil Kamath
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5 statements about Google Wave, every show
Google Wave had 70-80 engineers before securing any external users
“I worked at Google on this product called Google wave, which was trying to be everything to everyone. And. You know, we were 70, 80 engineers building this thing before it even really had any users outside Google.”
Adams: Google Wave failed because 2007 browsers and users were unready
“Google wave itself, like the project I work on at Google was really prescient in what it wanted to do in terms of real time communications and collaborations. But it was early for a bunch of reasons, like browsers weren't quite ready. People weren't quite read…”
Siroker: Google Wave, Buzz, and Glass were technology in search of problems
“Google's notorious for building products that are technology in search of problems. Google Wave, Google Buzz, Google Glass, like, all of these products were basically some smart engineer or technologist starting the sentence with, Wouldn't it be cool if, dot, …”
Adams: Google Wave failed because customers didn't care about its differentiation
“Google wave was an amazingly innovative product. That no one really cared about.”
Siroker: Google culture prioritizes technical sophistication over solving customer problems
“At Google, you know, they value sophistication of the technology more than they value solving a customer problem. And so that was a cultural thing that started from the early days that served us well, served Google well for certain products like search and pro…”