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Two team-centric acquisitions that Google has made in recent years: Aardvark and Slide. Both were cases of products that were mostly ahead of their time or just-off re: product-market fit, and had genius teams. As far as I know, the majority of both teams are still at Google.


Max Levchin left Google and Aardvark was shut down.

Google had Foursquare in house (called Dodgeball) but couldn't execute.

Android is the best counter-example I can think of.


max levchin -> slide max ventilla -> aardvark


Very little of the Aardvark team is left at Google, and those who are are scattered across different teams.


What has become of the Slide properties that Google inherited? What do they do with Slide stuff now?




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