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No problem! My team is a small subset of engineers in a 10yo+ startup, and the organisation chose to go all in on many Google services long before any of us joi
by m0zzie 3y ago
No problem! My team is a small subset of engineers in a 10yo+ startup, and the organisation chose to go all in on many Google services long before any of us joined the company. I have my issues with Google and some of their services but the GP stands out as an odd comment to me because it's at odds with my own experience of keeping up with I/O talks.
- criddell 3y agoIs it still a startup after a decade? Isn’t it just a company at that point.
- tnel77 3y agoRelated: It drives me bananas when a mega-corp makes a small R&D team and the job req says “we are a small startup in a big company.” The benefits, bureaucracy, speed of innovation, and equity all fit the usual mega corporate shoes, so it’s probably still a traditional role.
- nopenotthat 3y ago[dead]
- int_19h 3y agoIt does actually work out sometimes. I had the luck to be on one such team at Microsoft in the past, and we absolutely did have the benefit of cutting through much of the usual red tape etc, while still having access to megacorp resources. But the only reason why it worked out the way it did is because the "owner" of the team in question 1) sincerely believed in this approach, 2) had enough clout with the top management to make it stick.
- hn_go_brrrrr 3y agoI was in one of these. We got equity and benefits, but we were explicitly exempted from normal bureaucracy. Our exec sponsor (and nominal manager) asked that we tell him before we launched or signed a big customer, and that was about it. Otherwise, we could do whatever we wanted with basically no oversight. I'm pretty sure we could have gotten away with spending most of our time playing video games on the company's dime, if we had wanted. We probably would have been fired once someone found out, but that's pretty universal.
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- steve1977 3y agoIt’s still a startup if it’s not profitable yet ;)
- latchkey 3y agoI built a business that did $80m of (profitable) revenue, in the first year. We were profitable after 3 months. Is that not a startup?
- codethief 3y ago¬A (not profitable) => B (startup) does not imply A (profitable) => ¬B (not a startup).
- throwaway5959 3y agoMath checks out. :D
- malfist 3y agoSo bed bath and beyond is a startup?
- satvikpendem 3y agoJust because > ¬A (not profitable) => B (startup) > does not imply > A (profitable) => ¬B (not a startup) does not imply that ¬A => B. In other words, the logical structure can be correct, but that does not mean the premises are themselves true. This is the difference between validity and soundness in formal logic [0]. [0] https://iep.utm.edu/val-snd/ https://iep.utm.edu/val-snd/
- neodypsis 3y agoYour company was new. But the situation you describe is not typical of a startup as commonly understood.
- latchkey 3y ago
- ihaveajob 3y agoI've heard some folks (angel investors!) refer to Telefonica as a startup, so...
- mitchdoogle 3y agoStartup is just another buzzword for a business. It's never been anything different than that. I wouldn't make any assumption about it based on the term, not the age, size, market, etc
- ihateyouall123 3y agoYeah but who are you?