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Comment by ldjkfkdsjnv

2 days ago

"One of the most valuable companies on the planet is mismanaging its products"

see the issue with that assertion?

Google mismanages an enormous number of things. Users, Customers, Products, Teams, Talent. You can observe this in your interactions with Google/Alphabet and in ex-googler post-mortems.

They are amazingly valuable as a stock, as a business and as a collection of talent. That doesn’t entirely excuse failures of vision and leadership, let alone pricing.

Edit: That said, I am inclined to believe that Alphabet pricing likely better reflects reality. The others have some bad habits.

  • Swinging back around again, the notion of “failures of vision” still on my mind.

    Talk about overloaded. The two framings I was thinking of was first from an engineering & design perspective, but also second from an alignment perspective.

    Some people recoil in horror when they look upon what Elon has done, but what a multinational corporation - one that has become engrained in daily life - can do when aligned to anything but the dollar is astonishing. Ironically it’s not something money can buy.

Yeah… on the other hand I don’t let the stock market do all my thinking for me. As an aside, I thought /r/superstonk was a parody subreddit.