Re:Google+ now lets you use any name you want
by AVTizzle on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @11:53PM
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Prototypes and projects they may be, they still speak to Google's greater ambitions.
They're aiming high. That's all I'm saying. It's hard to argue against that.
It's easy to forget that Tesla and SpaceX weren't always the great cars and great rockets with great efficiency they are today. Just 3-4 years ago they were both on the brink of collapse.
In one of my undergraduate business classes in 2009, one of my professors literally used Elon Musk and Tesla/SpaceX as a case study in poor management.
Like SpaceX and Tesla, Google X's moonshots deserve time to evolve.
Yes, it's true that one or more of Google's "moon shot" projects might become massive successes. But it's also true that they might not.
Elon Musk, like Apple, focuses on products that actually ship and sell. Tesla sells great cars with great efficiency. SpaceX flies great rockets, for pay, with great efficiency. Musk came up with the Hyperloop, but (unlike Google) he's not spending any time or money on it.