Another upsetting case of founders and management quitting Google after an acquisition. We saw this take place with dMarc Advertising when Google moved in and started changing how the culture interacted.
But Dennis Crowely has moved on to Area/Code which is part of Big Games. The new project of his will focus on a much larger scale of playing than just the Internet world.
“It’s no real secret that Google wasn’t supporting dodgeball the way we expected,” Crowley wrote in the entry, which CNET News.com was alerted to via a link from Robert Scoble’s blog. “We couldn’t convince them that dodgeball was worth engineering resources, leaving us to watch as other startups got to innovate in the mobile + social space.” Crowley could potentially have been referring to Twitter, a Dodgeball rival that’s been getting quite a lot of buzz over the past few months.
Google has been having problems keeping staff on board after acquiring the company. I am very interested to see how this kind of situation plays out with the recently acquired DoubleClick Inc.
