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I agree. To criticize Google still working like a start-up is a big complement.
by willz 18y ago
I agree. To criticize Google still working like a start-up is a big complement.
- aneesh 18y agoNot necessarily. Even pg will agree that a lot of the things that make a startup so productive and exciting fundamentally break when you have 15,000+ people.
- apathy 18y agoEven pg will agree that a lot of the things that make a startup so productive and exciting fundamentally break when you have 15,000+ people. Well then, let's hear it from pg.
- pg 18y agoThey tend to in practice, but it may not be completely inevitable. Organizations have some control over how bureaucratic they become.
- daniel-cussen 18y agoNucor (18,000+ employees) comes to mind as a counterexample. But then, the exception proves the rule. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucor
- neilk 18y agoI don't know if you meant it like this, but the original sense of "prove" was more like "test". That is, an apparent exception is a test of the rule's generality. According to that wikipedia page, Nucor believes in decentralization and objective metrics, so they are indeed a good test of the rule. If that page is accurate, Nucor employees can't get very far on politics alone.
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