Re:Summer YC startup launches: Versionate's Wiki End Run Aro...
by pg on Wednesday July 11, 2007 @06:31PM
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It's an indirect assault.
Re:Summer YC startup launches: Versionate's Wiki End Run Aro...
by budu3 on Thursday July 12, 2007 @12:56PM
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Yeah. I think PG might have changed his stance a little by backing these guys.
Re:Summer YC startup launches: Versionate's Wiki End Run Aro...
by ivankirigin on Wednesday July 11, 2007 @06:27PM
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I should justify my comments -- I only spent 2 minutes on versionate and plan to come back to try more.
I was reading a Paul Graham interview from a while ago: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/09/02/an-interview-with-vc-pa...
Here is an interesting quote: " I wouldn't advise competing with Google in things they're good at. So what is Google good at? As a first approximation, making things their own developers use at work. So they'll do a better job on an online calendar than a video sharing site, for example, because their employees are probably not supposed to be sitting watching videos at work. "
He goes on to mention Google's size, which is probably another factor here.
It would be interesting to hear more about what folks at Y-Combinator think about this direct assault on a growing Google service.