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Well, I’m sure, most of you didn’t heard anything about Dodgeball before the co-founders left the company on April 13, 2007. I even heard it just today, after the news about the resignation came out. 

But what really is the reason why the co-founders of Dodgeball left what they founded after Google bought it? Om pointed out that for entrepreneurs who sellout to Google, Google money is good, but working for Google, not so good! But these founders said that the real reason is because, Google is not serious on their technology. Google didn’t put any resources into the network. They’re expecting high enough for the support of Google but it didn’t happened.

But sometimes I was thinking why do these co-founders left their own company just at this time, when in fact they can leave it soon as they realized the real feeling of Google on their technology? Is it because Twitter and the likes, the new technology similar to Dodgeball is now getting famous?

Okay, if you’re wondering what really is Dodgeball? Duncan has these words:

But from all accounts Dodgeball was the Twitter that never happened in its time. The service was all mobile phones and location, but that’s about as far as it got, having stagnated in the Google pile of companies they bought just because Sergey got out of bed on the wrong side one morning.

And what might be the reason why Google bought Dodgeball and then just leave it on their locker? Kottke even wonders:

Not for the founders…they left. Not for the tech. To build it up into a profitable company? (Nope, they didn’t put any resources into it.) To kill it before some other company (Yahoo, Microsoft) got their mitts on it? For the PR value? Why did they even bother?

Whatever…. It’s Google that only knows….

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