The story of the Google Reader could just be titled, "Why Startups…

The story of the Google Reader could just be titled, “Why Startups Exist.”

“At that time, outside of Google, VCs would have been throwing money at us left and right,” Wetherell says. Inside Google, it could never compete. Outside Google, there would have been no politics, no crushing weight of constant impending doom. If Google had been driven by anything other than sheer scale, Reader might have gotten to Google scale after all. https://lnkd.in/geJpjpDW