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kleinbl00 · 2997 days ago · link · · parent · post: Google to Uber: "Oh, you wanna see what weaponized cash looks like?"
I think Paul Carr, way back when before NSFWCorp was even playing patronage games, pointed out that Uber had a business plan for exactly as long as it took for Google to decide to take it from them. The parallel is Groupon: "Oh, you make money by making coupons for businesses? Great! We can roll that into AdWords without even having to hire anyone have fun with that IPO TTYL!" That's why they worked.so.hard to come up with a social network that isn't Facebook - they have no penetration into Facebook's market. They have no way to compete for Facebook's eyeballs. So while Facebook will never compete on Google's turf, Google will never compete on Facebook's, either.