Comment on Chrome is worth around $50 billion, DuckDuckGo CEO guesstimates
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 4 days agoIt’s not only about the brand, it’s about the installed base. You have hundreds of millions (billion plus?) of users who use your application every day for a wide variety of tasks.
Olap@lemmy.world 4 days ago
And if you start fucking with them then they will all go to Google’s new browser. Just like the old one. Not all, but you get the picture. Chrome isn’t worth $50bn to anyone but Google
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That is a possibility.
However, I think in this particular case, the DDG CEO is better qualified than me or you to evaluate the value of Chrome. I can’t think of any reason for Weinberg to promote an inflated valuation for Chrome.
Olap@lemmy.world 4 days ago
CEOs are weird. DDG might be a privacy champion but it isn’t a for profit company. Meaning Weinberg wants to make bucks too. If Chrome is worth $50bn what does that make ddg worth? If Google get slapped with an anti-trust and forced to break up, who might benefit from the big bucks that might be floating around? And ever noticed how CEOs tend to fail up? Fluffing google is a nice advert for the next head of google search here.
Show me monetisation strategies, and hence value per user for the installed base if you want to claim that kinda figures imo
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I agree with you, I may be even more cynical than you with respect to senior executives’ public statements and corporate PR.
I just don’t see a clear motive for the DDG CEO to inflate the valuation of Chrome. The examples you cite seem a bit far fetched (to me), I could be wrong of course.