Google dominance: an investors perspective

[Whitey]

I couldn’t have said it better. Here’s a founder, entrepreneur and investor of a leading travel online brand:

“How did we – the OTAs – allow this to happen?” he asked during his one-on-one interview, which followed right after a presentation by Yu Ukai, product manager at Google Travel, responsible for the travel search experience on Google Search and Google Maps, leveraging Google’s AI and other technologies.

Said Cuthbert, “We were the ones who were out there with the risk capital doing the development, figuring out how to do this. Everybody else followed along, right? We spent absolute fortunes with Google. We spent billions and billions of dollars. And now they come along and they say, you know what? We don’t really need you. Man, that drives me crazy. And it also says to me, don’t invest in anything because Google will probably take that. Take it direct.”

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I guess everyone’s an investor in innovation regardless of whether you’re a blogger or aspiring to be a large scale business.

What’s the motivation for investment in your business effort now? Where’s this all headed with Google?