Your points are all correct.. but this article isn’t written for startups. When you work at trillion dollar company that likes to think of itself as a small ni

Your points are all correct.. but this article isn’t written for startups. When you work at trillion dollar company that likes to think of itself as a small nimble startup, you write articles like this… the point isn’t to help startups, it’s to influence people in the organization to behave in a certain way by attributing the behavior you want to another group you admire. Google doesn’t care about creating a successful startup.. they do care about how their employees work together. A slightly less cynical take is that when Google "studies" startups, they dont recognize problems like you describe because creating a startup isnt a problem they are faced with. But cultural issues exist everywhere, and so those are the problems that the person sees and addresses in their writeup. The result is the same either way. You're not going to get startup lessons from one of the largest companies in the world.