Google Throws *More* Money at Another Dev Tool Startup. Seriously.

Oh, joy. Google Ventures – because apparently they have absolutely no idea what they’re doing with their own developer tools – just dumped another $100 million into Blacksmith, a startup that wants to…wait for it… help developers *manage* their development workflows. Four months after their seed round. Four months! Like the first check didn’t immediately tell them everything they needed to know?

Apparently, this Blacksmith thing lets teams see what other teams are doing and supposedly “unblock” each other. Groundbreaking. Truly revolutionary. I’ve seen more innovation in a toaster oven. They claim it reduces context switching – which is just fancy talk for “we’re trying to solve problems that good project management already does.”

The whole thing reeks of VC hype and Google desperately flailing around, hoping something sticks. They’ve got enough internal projects rotting on the vine; why they need *another* dev tool company is beyond me. And now it’s valued at $600 million? For what?! A glorified Kanban board with extra steps?

Look, I get it. Everyone wants to be a “platform.” But throwing money at yet another SaaS solution isn’t strategy; it’s stupidity. This is going to end badly. Mark my words.

Source: TechCrunch

Speaking of wasted money, I once had a sysadmin try to convince me that replacing perfectly good ethernet cables with *gold-plated* ones would improve network performance. He spent three grand on them. Three. Grand. The only thing it improved was his ability to get fired. This Blacksmith deal feels…familiar.

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