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Please correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that google shares a similar philosophy in a few ways.
by insanecanadian 15y ago
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that google shares a similar philosophy in a few ways.
- ender7 15y agoThere are many similarities, but the nature of the products each produces introduces some differences. Valve creates occasional monolithic products that depend heavily on art direction and experience design. Google produces a complex, interconnected system where Everything Must Scale.
- insanecanadian 15y agoAh, thanks for the correction.
- JL2010 15y agoI imagine their digital distribution system (Steam) is very much like what you described (complex, interconnected, scalable systems). Valve is quite diverse.
- wisty 15y agoIn some ways, Valve manages to be more extreme, because it's smaller. 250 employees could conceivably be totally flat, if they are all committed and the boss is ... brilliant. Google has a few more employees. The idea that everything is shared, and people do pretty much whatever they want is nice, but doesn't work if you want as many heads as Google has.