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Season 2, Episode 3: Nest
Acquired
The Parallels Between the Google Nest and Facebook Oculus Acquisitions
The parallels between the Google Nest acquisition and the Facebook Oculus acquisition are like really apt. In both cases, what was hot at the time were these, you know, quote unquote, Facebook style acquisitions of promising companies. But I think the difference is like those worked because fundamentally those are not platform companies. And when you're trying to be a full, full stack hardware software OS company along the lines of Google or Apple, you need as much resources as possible.
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