I'm glad she did that. One of the things that was a mess at Google was an intensional/extensional conflict. Throughout the 2000s, Google was viewed as "the cult

I'm glad she did that. One of the things that was a mess at Google was an intensional/extensional conflict. Throughout the 2000s, Google was viewed as "the cultural leader" and that exposed it to a lot of executive bikeshedding. Not everyone feels entitled to an opinion about how Google should run, but everyone has an opinion about how the cultural leader should be run. If I ever build a company that's a cultural leader, I'm going to try to have the reputation of a #4 player for that reason. I admire Mayer a lot for having the cojones to say, "This isn't necessarily right for everyone, but it was right for us."