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by asdf8565 3291 days ago
IMO, the biggest/best companies are the one's that take run of the mill daily business expenses and turn them into money makers.

Google needed email to run it's business. They built a customer facing service around it.

Computing answers is their thing. With their machine learning cloud services, anyone can compute answers for their complex problems.

Companies that stagnate tend to iterate, with little to show for it, on a few "core" products.

While they're too big to collapse altogether, I'd put Oracle, MS, Yahoo, and numerous others in that group.

Possibly Facebook. They're no where near as diversified as Amazon or Google. If the bottom falls out on buying eyeballs, they're in for a world of hurt.

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> Google needed email to run it's business

Please explain