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What makes you think there is a “good side” of Silicon Valley? Genuinely curious how such naïveté can still exist in the wild.

• goatinaboat 6y ago
  What makes you think there is a “good side” of Silicon Valley? Genuinely curious how such naïveté can still exist in the wild. With retrospect we can pinpoint the exact moment the good side died: when Google uttered the words “don’t be evil”.
  • Dma54rhs 6y ago
    But you have to be naive this slogan ever meant anything, it was a marketing ploy until they are big enough. It paid to be the don't do evil side at the time. It's like believing all these huge companies taking part of social change campaigns for common good - its just marketing but people believe it, even the ones very distrustful of corporations otherwise.
    • goatinaboat 6y ago
      But you have to be naive this slogan ever meant anything, it was a marketing ploy until they are big enough It was the point at which they knew they could just be blatant about adopting such a bare-faced motto and no one would bat an eyelid.