The Wisdom Of AdMob’s Founder Omar Hamoui

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48 points·adamhowell··5 comments

I was all set to write a snarky comment about the WSJ doing another piece on how (retrospectively) brilliant some outlier founder was until I read the piece and discovered that "wisdom" refers to a series of blog posts written by AdMob's Employee #1. Skip the WSJ and go straight to the source:

http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2009/05/23/omar-hamoui-on-ideas-an... http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2009/05/25/omar-hamoui-on-deals-an... http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2009/05/26/omar-hamoui-on-sales-an... http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2009/05/27/omar-hamoui-on-competit... http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2009/05/29/omar-hamoui-on-communic...

It's a story like this that illustrates the power of a good idea, the ability to get stuff done, and some software.

$750,000,000 is a lot of value to create in 3 years.

And full marks to Google, who may have over-paid, but they've done so successfully before. Their portfolio has now become even more compelling. They remain unparalleled at identifying what move to make before everyone else.

I wonder how the executive meetings at Microsoft and Yahoo went the next morning. Disbelief? Dazed? Anger? A sinking feeling?

I wonder how the executive meetings at Microsoft and Yahoo went the next morning. Disbelief? Dazed? Anger? A sinking feeling?

Misunderstanding?

(Every time Ballmer says something along the lines of "I don't understand their business model" as a way of dismissing, for eg, Google's Android play, I wonder how much he is just trying to create FUD, and how much he genuinely doesn't understand).

You should read his personal note if you haven't:

http://www.admob.com/google

I like his tribute to Apple - its very true that Apple has completely changed the mobile space for the better.

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