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Uber already knows this. That's why they've partnered with Baidu and raised $2B from Chinese investors recently.

You really think Travis is going to lose in China? This isn't Google China in 2009. Travis partnered with the crazy guy who got Google kicked out of China.

I won't speculate that Uber will be dominate in China but there's no way they're going away anytime soon.

Reference to Li (CEO of Baidu), expiring Google in China - https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Google-blocked-in-China

Build something people want. When was the last time Yahoo did that?

I briefly used Yahoo Weather until they introduced huge ads and then deleted it. Prior to that I used Flickr and Yahoo Mail in 2004/2005.

Answer - very few companies admit they over hired. Most will downplay stupidity.

The trepidation in the market is certainly good for getting things back to reality.

Private links, like Google Drive has, is probably an upcoming feature.

You're right that is fast. Keep up the great work!

I think Parker is really, really smart. If you hear him talk he sounds like he's somewhere on the intelligence level of Patrick Collison. It's too bad he tried to shortcut a regulated industry but I'm curious what his next ambitions are.

CRM for government reminds me of the Ted Talk where a guy said the government should use source control. We're not there yet but it's a step in the right direction.

You guys should seriously consider using resellers and distributors btw. Gov't purchasing agents always request three competitive bids.

Sam what to you think of Andy Rubin's hardware incubator Playground Global? ($300m funding round)

http://playground.global/

http://venturebeat.com/2015/10/07/andy-rubins-playground-inc...

I know a Matt Scully...lol no way does he work for the DHS

I switched to Google Wallet. PayPal would take forever to send money and has done nothing for years to innovate. All they do is buy startups (Braintree). I think this is entirely true - when the founders leave, companies stop innovating.

Why didn't they innovate more?

I don't think it's misleading. Companies know mistakes cost money and experience doesn't always associate with better productivity.

This is a surprise, said no one ever.

Sometimes companies will pay for experience but often they'll hire someone younger who screws up more because they cost less.

Dropbox is playing catch up with Box in the enterprise so they're hiring salespeople like crazy in San Francisco, Australia, New York and Europe.

Why you ask? Obviously because storage will be infinite and free in the future. Google Drive for education is already completely free.

https://www.google.com/edu/products/productivity-tools/

What that means is that Dropbox is shifting from a consumer to an enterprise company. We all know for consumers they're way too expensive - 1TB for $100 is way to much free space for the average person.

The problem is they've screwed up other things. Google owned Carousel with Google Photos. Mailbox turned out to be an overly expensive acqui-hire. Luckily that doesn't affect them that much because they raised a boatload of cash and have lots of customers.

Now will Dropbox go away or die? Probably not but they'll always be behind Box when it comes to enterprise features.

It's too bad Box and Dropbox can't merge. Box has crap sync and Dropbox lacks a lot of Enterprise features Box has.

Hiring is part of it but it's also about systematically launching products to create your own ecosystem.

Yahoo's never really built an ecosystem like Google and when you couple that with low performing acquisitions you get job cuts.

I don't work at Yahoo but I believe the answer is management.

In the past 10 years with Yahoo I - deleted Yahoo Weather after they put huge ads and briefly used Flickr.

In the past 10 years with Google I - use Gmail, Google Drive, Google docs, Google sheets, Search, Google Maps, Chrome, Waze and YouTube on a daily basis. I've also bought Chromecast and occasionally use Hangouts & Wallet. I'm excited about a lot of their Google X projects.

The 15% job cut is because Marissa Mayer failed to suck me and millions of others into the Yahoo ecosystem.

I think part of that is shifting Yahoo from a media company to something more like Google.

Napolitano's decision was probably one of those that sounded good in theory until people found out about it.

If I was a professor I'd want to work somewhere where I feel safe and secure because it's eerie having someone standing over your shoulders, let alone 24/7.

You mentioned intellectual freedom which is a feeling of security. I find that feeling misleading in the US with the NSA's new data center in Utah collecting our information.

Still it would be wise of Napolitano to reverse course but I think it's unlikely given her background.

Ditto. I don't find this surprising either.

If you work for someone else, they can do whatever they want with your communications on their devices.

I don't work at Berkeley but my guess is their system can do more than record emails which is extremely pervasive.

Quantum Computing.

Chinese DDoS? Somehow I don't buy power going out at a server farm.

NOooOOOoooOOOoooOOOooOOooo

Whoo hoo! I agree!

I was in Tokyo in 2013 and 2014. I remember seeing lots of salarymen all dressed the same, also government workers all dressed the same with their little badges on their sleeves and I couldn't help thinking about the lack of individuality in their culture.

It doesn't surprise me that Japan is mimicking the U.S. by bailing out failing local companies.

The real issue with Japan is their lack of entrepreneurship. They used to be fierce competitors but are now more of an afterthought.

Someone hacked my Amazon account once. I'm surprised they don't have 2-step verification.

Not everything with Telegram is open source like Signal. I still use Telegram because it's designed better and updated much more frequently.

Didn't Alex Schultz, VP of Growth at Facebook, already say this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_yHZ_vKjno&feature=youtu.be...

I still use it. I don't find sync to work with iOS and OSX for Notes.

Once I had Evernote delete a months worth of notes randomly. I wish Google Keep was more refined.

Why Magic+ instead of Operator?