YAY! Twitter, NOT Jaiku, Can BE the Next Google
Hey! Did I convince Fred Wilson to drive his portfolio company Twitter to work to BE the next Google, rather than merely the next Google flip on the cheap?
After all, despite conventional blogosphere wisdom, a Google buy out of Jaiku does NOT directly translate to a Twitter loss in the great “success” by Google acquisition game.
Guys, maybe, just maybe, Twitter is NOT FOR SALE!
I underscored over the weekend that too many hacker entrepreneurs sell themselves short by aiming to only sell themselves to Google, rather than striving to be the next Google: Y Combinator’s Zenter hacker team big case in low expectations point.
Nevertheless, most likely, Union Square Ventures IS indeed, deep down, twittering some unhappy tweets for the Googley canary that got away, this time.
READ MORE: Hey Paul and Fred: Hackers, NOT Startups, Are the Commodity and Y Combinator to Hackers: Dream SMALL and Code for Google on the Cheap,
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