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The Case for Google
- joeguilmette 19y agoi'll admit i've been a google fanboy for quite some time (pre-gmail, even). it does remind me, however, of ebay's meteoric rise during the dotcom boom. i remember my dad driving to me to school everyday and listening to npr. for a year or two, it was this stock and that stock, IPO IPO IPO, unprecedented growth, will the rise ever stop? and then it did. google is going to run into the same problems that microsoft has right now. they are just going to be too damn big to accomplish much of anything. they are always hiring, and that doesn't seem to be doing much to stave off the 'albatross stage' of a company's life.
- cstejerean 19y agoi dont think the problems with innovation in large companies are caused by the number of employees. I think often the management style at large companies tends to stiffle innovation. If Google can maintain it's atypical managent structure and encourage bottom up innovation and remain willing to take risks on ideas that are not profitable at firet (and unrelated to its corr business) it can remain a leader in innovation.
- DanielBMarkham 19y agoThat, sir, is the $20 Billion-dollar question. If they do, for any serious length of time (I'm talking 20+ years), then they will have been the first to do it.