Inside Google Ventures' Open Source Product Design Process

First time accepted submitter smaxp writes "Google Ventures is blazing a new trail for venture investors, delivering advice and services to its portfolio companies with in-house teams of experts in the fields of design, marketing, recruiting and engineering. I had a fascinating discussion with Google Ventures design partner Jake Knapp about how he and his four design partners help Google Ventures portfolio companies design better products and better businesses."

Comments

Generic business plan

[Animats]

The generic business plan of Google Ventures companies, based on their privacy policies, seems to be

• Give away service for cheap or free
• Ram anal probe up user's ass and collect data
• Spam with ads.

Even their thermostat phones home and sends data about when you're home to a server.

Re:Generic business plan

[AndyAndyAndyAndy]

Modded "insightful" but not really sure what the insight is. It's a pretty established business plan for data companies. It smells like a criticism with the anal probe hyperbole, but not really sure what the point is.