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Google since Page and Brin bailed has become a highly political organization interested only in short term revenue growth, and is no longer an engineering organ
by otherotherchris 5y ago
Google since Page and Brin bailed has become a highly political organization interested only in short term revenue growth, and is no longer an engineering organization focused on product excellence. Anyone that has used their messaging products over the years has noticed this.
This type of business attracts a different class of talent and nearly all of the old guard has cashed in their stock and left.
- ur-whale 5y agoSpot on. The really interesting question is whether this is actually avoidable or if all highly successful human organizations that started with high bar ideals and brilliant folks are eventually doomed to rot in place the way Google has.
- peterth3 5y agoI believe this is more or less Christensen’s argument in “The Innovator’s Dilemma” [0]. Google is now the incumbent beholden to shareholders. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma
- fuzzfactor 5y agoTo be, or not to be evil . . .