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You realise this is one of the main reasons AWS is an order of magnitude bigger than Google Cloud in revenue right?

• whoevercares 6y ago
  Sure, I’m just trying to guess why Google choose to do things this way. What’s more, they dare to do this for some reason. On the other hand, Google’s work life balance might be order of magnitude better than Amazon. I would like to be the Boss of Amazon or an employee of Google :)
  • sfifs 6y ago
    Their quarterly financial filings may give you a clue... the search, YT and network ads business revenue and margins are so huge that what they do anywhere else pretty much doesn't really matter from a corporate results standpoint :-) I've both lost and hired employees to/from Google and compared to my industry, by all accounts the culture around financial discipline appears to be way less important which may explain some of what you see.
• sofixa 6y ago
  That and the fact they had like 5 years of a head start.