Transcript: Google Got Chat Right 10 Years Back, But Didn't Know (TSP Insights)
In this TSP Insights episode of The Startup Project, host Nataraj Sindam discusses Google's long history with chat applications. Discover why he believes GTalk was the perfect product launched a decade ago and how the company's failure to adapt it for mobile led to years of strategic fumbles in the messaging space.
2022-12-14
I think Google's ability to execute certain things is 10x better than some other companies, but they're also bad at like figuring out certain things like we've seen the number of chat applications that came out of Google. Uh they had the first product in my view, the first product they got is the right one, G talk it was called back, you know, 10 years back, they had the right product. They had to just copy it down mobile and they would have been done. I think they're coming a full circle 10 years back to that uh interface again.