On 8/11/16 8:50 PM, Travis Johnson wrote:
"Fiber! Fiber! Fiber! That is the answer to everything. We are doing fiber everywhere!" "Fiber is expensive, and we can never get an ROI with that model... let's look at wireless."
The Google Fiber model seemed to rely on cities bending over backwards begging Google to pick them and because they were so desperate to be chosen they'd remove any obstacles leaving Google to just show up and do whatever.
And then they rolled up to a big city that already has a dozen other companies doing (or trying to do) the same thing and their model fell flat. So someone was all hey we've got money let's just buy some company that was successful in San Fransisco to solve the problem. Thus they bought Webpass and are attempting to pivot.
It's like nobody bothered to actually plan it, just full speed ahead with our checkbook and branding. At least that's my impression of Google Fiber.
~Seth
