> This counted on the fact that Google had promised us autonomy to continue to act as Waze and we believed them. Why does this keep happening? It is false 100%

> This counted on the fact that Google had promised us autonomy to continue to act as Waze and we believed them. Why does this keep happening? It is false 100% of the time. Are people really watching the sun come up every morning and thinking, "okay but tomorrow it won't." > I believed that I could build out Waze within Google, breaking the myth about what happens to companies after being acquired by large corporations Nice cautionary tale, but I'm different. > Perhaps Corp-Tech should move to employee share buy back where employees must sacrifice some of their salary for equity or change equity to vest by a product related metric to connect the teams performance with the employee returns. Performance based incentives never work for people who are not directly revenue generating. One piston in your engine working extra hard is meaningless, the credit to getting you to your destination is the driver. And when cogs in the machine lose out on their "performance" incentive because they never had any control to begin with they get angry, burnt out, and leave. Within a corporation you have to make the labor theory of value true and reward effort even if it's pointless. You put the responsibility of delivering meaningful value on the people directing where that effort goes. > while on line, a Googler ahead of us was overheard saying “What? Sushi again???” which became our inside joke around entitlement. But several months later, we had been co-opted as well and it was Waze employees complaining about the food This both completely misunderstands and exactly gets why entitlement is the wrong concept. Everyone's happiness and contentment regresses to the mean eventually when their lives get better and when they get worse. Someone complaining about the sushi is genuinely and reasonably annoyed because that very literally made their day worse. People see that as entitlement because they're forgetting how happiness in humans actually works. Whether this is a comfort or nihilistic is up to you but Elon Musk is not happier than you.