Google also invented "cloud" and is in last place. Invention counts for little.
Google is over-run with MBAs who are busy complecting and burning their employer to the ground while cycling back into the competition (Azure and AWS).
Google's internal machine provisioning model was already automated and accessible via an API, it would have been recognizable as a "cloud", but it was internal only. The kernel changes that enabled OpenVZ and Docker were done by Google engineers.
In the same way OpenAI shipped a business on transfomers (invented by Google). Google invents stuff, but then is last to its own party.
Or the Ramones of the 70s. They play a show and everyone in the audience goes home and starts a punk band and becomes wildly more successful (across multiple definitions of “success”).
Google also invented "cloud" and is in last place. Invention counts for little.
Google is over-run with MBAs who are busy complecting and burning their employer to the ground while cycling back into the competition (Azure and AWS).