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...Quentin interact? We discussed the character as if we were reconstructing his past. Quentin doesn't work by instruction. He works by inspiration. He has an absolute unique talent of inspiring everyone around him to not only do their best but do things that are in his best interest. How does he do that? I think he has a secret magic wand or something...
...Cloud Power Over the past few years, Google has been snapping up leading Web-based software start-ups that make it easy to edit documents, spreadsheets and presentations online. Now Schmidt and Co. have added the best available photo-editing tool. Strategically speaking, you might think of it as a carefully orchestrated effort to gradually sideline Microsoft's lumbering desktop software suite. To that end, Picnik will bolster Google's launch of its new Web-oriented Chrome operating system later this year. "The consumer market is evolving into a model where every useful or interesting application starts with a login...
...Talent Google puts deals in one of two baskets - small talent buys and big strategic buys. In Picnik they got two for the price of one. Among Picnik's 22-person staff are three former Microsoft employees - "three of the best guys ever to step off the Redmond campus on one team," boasts Picnik adviser Burgess - along with other respected Web talents. Marcelo Calbucci, an entrepreneur who founded Seattle 2.0, a service for Seattle start-ups, estimates on his blog that Google paid at least $46 million for Picnik, possibly twice that much. Picnik and Google have both refused...
...best example that I have seen to date of the extraordinary power of Google's culture," says Burgess. "There were many reasons why this acquisition could have stalled - the political issue of paying a premium to buy the company of an employee who left Google, the fact that Google already has a photo-editing suite and Picnik's reliance on the Flash platform. Google as a company was able to navigate past these hurdles and close the deal. Other bidders were stalled by their own political inertia...
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