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PR campaign to paint Google as "startup-y" to slow the talent drain into Facebook and likes ?
by VladRussian 16y ago
PR campaign to paint Google as "startup-y" to slow the talent drain into Facebook and likes ?
- yanw 16y agoOne could argue that Google have always been 'startup-y' and any 'drain' reports can be attributed to media exaggerations and over-echoing of separate cases - as the media often does. Regardless this shake-up is set to streamline management which will accelerate the company's decision making
- nostrademons 16y agoIt's fairly likely that the "talent drain into FaceBook" is itself a PR campaign to speed up the talent drain into FaceBook...
- ecuzzillo 16y agoUh. Well, we know there have been more-than-several high-profile moves from Google to Facebook. How many high-profile moves have there been from Facebook to Google?
- nostrademons 16y agoI know the answer to that, but I'm not at liberty to say. It is significant, though. Anecdotally (which I am allowed to say), among the people I've worked with at Google, there have been far more defections to startups than to FaceBook. Many of them ended up at YCombinator. And the people who leave to found their own companies generally seem to be of higher quality than the ones who left for FaceBook - I find I rarely miss the people who defected to FaceBook, while I very frequently miss the ones who've left to found or join early-stage startups.
- VladRussian 16y ago>I know the answer to that, but I'm not at liberty to say. that somewhat strange when taken together with the definition of high-profile.