> we don't have executive vision, engineers do random things and sometimes it works If I am not wrong, that's exactly what Eric Schmidt meant when he misquoted

> we don't have executive vision, engineers do random things and sometimes it works If I am not wrong, that's exactly what Eric Schmidt meant when he misquoted Mao Zedong, "Let a thousand flowers bloom" and Sergey Brin when he said "But once they do bloom, at some point you want to make a coherent bouquet". https://archive.is/wsTUO https://archive.is/wsTUO Also: It takes a special type of analysis to claim things are going downhill at a company making $500m/day! May be, some folks do idealize the start-up grind way too much because all they see are survivors and not the ones that withered away. If I am allowed to be reductive, at FAANG scale, the only games that matter are M&A (to avoid being disrupted) and govt contacts / contracts.