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I think it's worth noting that while Google has a vortex (cool employees go in, harder for them to come out), Facebook has seen so many people leaving and doing

I think it's worth noting that while Google has a vortex (cool employees go in, harder for them to come out), Facebook has seen so many people leaving and doing innovative things that it's got it's very own mafia now. Perhaps because it's possible to do something new and crazy (and unrelated) in Google, and not so possible to do so in Facebook.

PakG1 16y ago
That's not a fair comparison. Facebook's mafia guys are mostly early-stage employees. Early-stage employees tend to be more entrepreneurial and are also more tight-knit, which is how the mafia sentiment is able to sustain itself. Plenty of Googlers are entrepreneurial enough to leave and do startups, but they aren't considered mafia because they were never part of an early core group that bonded. And those that are entrepreneurial enough to leave aren't as high-profile entrepreneurial as early-stage employees would be.
Apocryphon 16y ago
What about Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.?