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Google, of all companies, have developed some of the finest talent recognition software in the valley. Maybe they have, but we won't know without hard evidence
by auctiontheory 13y ago
Google, of all companies, have developed some of the finest talent recognition software in the valley.
Maybe they have, but we won't know without hard evidence. Your assertion doesn't make it so.
I like Google, I've eaten in their cafeterias (many friends work there), and I use several of their products.
And ... I'm aware that essentially all of their revenue comes from AdWords and AdSense. Everything else is subsidized by those two products. No other major Google product has had to compete in the marketplace on its own merits. So, objectively, it's hard to measure how talented their people are. (You're not going to convince me that Google has the world's most talented UI designers.)
- cromwellian 13y agoTo be fair, with the exception of hardware and retail companies, almost all internet era companies make their revenue from selling ads because people have a negative reaction to roadblocks and paywalls. Facebook is just as beholden to ads to Google is. I would argue that most of the Google products that are successes today in terms of users: Gmail, Chrome, Android, Maps, Search, etc have competed on the same merits as similar products from competitors. Yahoo Mail or Hotmail, for example, are subsidized by other products as well. I don't think Google has a monopoly on talented individuals, but I do think Google has a better culture than other companies. You can have the smartest people, but a shitty internal culture can act to break their innovation, not multiply it. I've worked at IBM and Oracle and definitely, very smart people at Oracle that I knew of were hampered and stymied by a suffocating corporate layer.
- blazespin 13y agoThis is like saying essentially all of microsoft's revenue comes from selling things. Google gets paid via ads.