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Alphabet has 120K employees right now. Ex-Google was a meaningful distinction 15 years ago. Today it does not remotely entitle you to being funded. Many VCs t

• m0zg 6y ago
  > Google is an extremely bureaucratic place And that would be accurate, to a large extent. But it's also one of the few remaining _technically competent_ places that does not hire people who can't code. That is why I qualified my statement by saying that the prospective founder would be _technically_ capable, not capable in general. If anything, they could be less organizationally capable, but that can be resolved with the right co-founder. To put it into more concrete terms: say you had a million dollars and would want to allocate it towards a bet in order to potentially turn it into a lot more. Who would _you_ pick, someone with tech aptitude credentials (which a substantial stint at Google as an engineer all but guarantees), or someone with no discernible credentials? Note that I'm not even mentioning race here. Race/gender/sexual orientation is 100% irrelevant in this calculation unless it actually confers an increased chance of turning $1M into $10M. E.g. as an investor I'd probably prefer a gay person to lead a gay dating service, just for the domain expertise. I'd still require that they have technical and/or business chops, however.