I always wondered this too. Would love to have been a fly on the wall in the "let's drop the 'don't be evil' motto" meeting. Maybe at the time it seemed intuit

I always wondered this too. Would love to have been a fly on the wall in the "let's drop the 'don't be evil' motto" meeting. Maybe at the time it seemed intuitive, not representative of the _positive_ goals of the company, and just something people could point at whenever there was a minor disagreement. In hindsight they may have been able to avoid the dumpster fire that they're in now if they had kept it.