[inmygarage]

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.

[bproper]

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.

[joshu]

max levchin -> slide max ventilla -> aardvark

[cyen]

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

[brown9-2]

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