It kills me that they quoted Hal Varian in this piece. Hal is an Micro-Econ legend (full disclosure: I interviewed him whilst he was still at Berkeley and we ex

It kills me that they quoted Hal Varian in this piece. Hal is an Micro-Econ legend (full disclosure: I interviewed him whilst he was still at Berkeley and we exchanged 1-2 emails over the years since the move to Google). I highly doubt—and more than anything, hope—that he didn’t have anything to do with this. It’s important to see good people succeed, it gives hope to the rest of the universe that success isn’t merely winning a race to an unethical finish line!