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How Waze navigated the Google Maps crisis
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•1:10 duration•251 wordsThe Birth of Waze and the Google Challenge
In this segment, the founder of Waze recounts the early days of the app, highlighting its unique offering of free turn-by-turn navigation and self-created maps. The narrative shifts to the pivotal moment in 2010 when Google announced its own turn-by-turn navigation, leading to widespread skepticism about Waze's future. Despite investor doubts, Waze focused on daily commuters, setting itself apart from Google Maps, which was used less frequently.
"when we started way was free and it was the only one that was offering turn by turn navigation and and the reason is that we created our own maps and then one day in 2010 Google announced their Freigh..."