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Yes, but look at the previous comment. How does "inventing transformers" marry with "Google has managers not visionaries"?
by robertlagrant 2y ago
Yes, but look at the previous comment. How does "inventing transformers" marry with "Google has managers not visionaries"?
- jsjohnst 2y agoJust because a company is 99% one thing, doesn’t mean that the 1% remaining don’t have moments of real genius. What it does mean however is that when those real genius moments happen, the company isn’t in a good position to capitalize on it (ala Xerox or Kodak mentioned previously, but there are so many more).
- ToucanLoucan 2y agoBecause that's the hallmark of business-minded people being at the helm and not engineers, which has been an issue for Google for a long time: the greatest inventions ever seen will be squandered in terms of the org itself because management can't see beyond the next few quarters and won't invest properly in it.