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I read the "how Google works " book and I can't help but question myself if they built what they built despite of the culture. The best recipe for a company th
by aprdm 7y ago
I read the "how Google works " book and I can't help but question myself if they built what they built despite of the culture.
The best recipe for a company that isn't printing billions of dollars from Advertising to go bankrupt is try to follow their book and culture.
If you remove infinite money and market dominance would it still work out in the end ? My guess is that it wouldn't.
Google feels sometimes very much like startups with VC money just being inefficient and burning other people money, except of course, Google is burning it's own money that is generated from the non sexy / cool stuff (ads and enterprise email / storage )...
- lisper 7y ago> If you remove infinite money and market dominance would it still work out in the end ? My guess is that it wouldn't. Google in the early days didn't have infinite money nor market dominance and it obviously worked out. Doing what they did is what got them from A to B.
- scarface74 7y agoAnd Apple, Amazon and Microsoft are nothing like that and two of the three are more profitable. Correlation is not causation.
- lisper 7y agoI didn't say it was. But the GP asked: > If you remove infinite money and market dominance would it still work out in the end ? And the answer to that is clearly: yes. It would because it did.
- ggm 7y agoIs there a variant of Godwin's law/meme that all conversations on HN about politics degenerate to hitting each other over neoliberal economics, the CoC and men's rights?
- shadowgovt 7y agoCoC?
- grzm 7y agoCode of Conduct