[laborcontract]

Can we please, please move past this generation of bean-counter CEOs. Google and Apple have done great things under Pichai and Cook, and yet I couldn't been less excited for what either is doing.

Bring back experimental culture.

[fidotron]

Say what you will about Zuckerberg, but at least he tried to burn untold billions on something that was potentially slightly exciting.

We should be grateful for funding of the research, and that it didn't pay off in market results. More of this!

[laborcontract]

Big time agree. I don't like the person, but i have great respect for his fearless capex spending.

[giwook]

I agree with the sentiment.

Experimental culture is inherently risky though, and risk is not something you want too much of as a public company as your shareholders can and will be very loud.

They do still experiment but in their R&D divisions so as to shield their cash cows from risk as well as to be able to better conceal how much money they’re pouring into moonshots so as not to spook investors.

Waymo is the most recent moonshot I can remember going out of Google X, and they’re arguably a leader in the space. There are other projects in the works, and many more failed ones.

[darepublic]

Look to smaller more focused companies for that

[smt88]

Gemini, Waymo, and Wing are very experimental