Gil: Google used to maintain a webpage of things it would never do
Elad Gil · Secrets Of Investing Early – Lessons From A Billion-Dollar Investor · Joe Lonsdale · Nov 2, 2024 · at 5:13
Investor Elad Gil recounts how early Google had a tongue-in-cheek list of products it vowed never to build, such as browsers and chat.
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“Google used to have this web page up that was like, here's all the things we're never going to do. And I said, we're never going to do IM or chat. We're never going to do a browser. We're never going to end up doing all those things, right? We're never going to do satellites. It was supposed to be like this exaggerated funny thing.”
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