Google: Sowing the Seeds of Its Own Destruction

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Google: Sowing the Seeds of Its Own Destruction

05-29-2007, 08:36 AM,

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Google: Sowing the Seeds of Its Own Destruction

Quote:Back in the 1990s Bill Gates said the company that would eventually beat Microsoft probably had yet to be founded, by which he meant that Microsoft was in such a strong position that only something truly disruptive -- a whole new business -- would have a chance to unseat Redmond. Some people think the company Bill was describing back then might be Google. I don't know if that's the case or not, but it leads me to ask this question: If Google, itself, is to be eventually beaten by some other company, does THAT company yet exist? I don't think so. But unlike the scenario envisioned by Gates, I have a pretty good idea where we'll find the founders of that Google-beating start-up. I think they are working right now at Google...

full article: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/...02134.html

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