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Good point and agree, its the same at other contemporary corporations. I am kind of looking at 1970-2000 era when companies used people as part of their brand /
by systemvoltage 6y ago
Good point and agree, its the same at other contemporary corporations. I am kind of looking at 1970-2000 era when companies used people as part of their brand / face - Bell Labs, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Fairchild Semiconductor, IBM and many others that made great engineers feel-like they weren't replaceable, but actually part of the ethos of the company. Their personal goodwill was coupled with the company's image and success. We've stopped doing that I believe.
- coldtea 6y agoYeah, ironically I think for Apple there's Jonathan Ive, which did rose to higher C-levels but was a mere designer in some Apple team in 1997. For Google, dunno, maybe Yegge?
- systemvoltage 6y agoGoogle - I can think of Ray Kurzweil and Peter Norvig.
- coldtea 6y agoThat would fit of the "after-the-fact hires of already famous people" I mentioned though -- not people becoming famous for what they did at Google.