I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions

Re:I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions by ChainOfFools on Monday November 20, 2023 @12:30PM (#38351129)

Is it possible that someone in Ilya's position can be unaware of just how staggeringly enormous a phenomenon he is sitting on top of ( and thus have no idea how to evaluate the scale of the backlash that would result?)

I would say the answer is, demonstrably yes:

https://techcrunch.com/2010/09/29/google-excite/

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Re:I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions by bbarnett on Monday November 20, 2023 @01:29PM (#38352155)

This is fair, but understand, Google bought would probably not be Google we have.

To think it would grow just as fast, or in the ways it did? Acquires are seldom left alone to do magic.

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