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Google's (official) mission "is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful" (https://www.google.com/about/company/ https:

by amaks 13y ago

Google's (official) mission "is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful" (https://www.google.com/about/company/ https://www.google.com/about/company/). Microsoft's is "to create a family of devices and services for individuals and businesses that empower people around the globe at home, at work and on the go, for the activities they value most." (http://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar13/shareholder-letter/index.html http://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar13/shareholder-l...). How's Facebook different having a mission statement?

kevando 13y ago
It's different in the sense their decisions that lead to becoming a'conglomerate' adhere to their mission. 3bn for Nest doesn't really help organize the world's data.
- amaks 13y ago
  Unless you view Nest as the source of data (which many believe it is)
coldtea 13y ago
I guess he means in that Facebook focuses on that, and Google and MS do all kinds of incompatible shit.
bertil 13y ago
> How's Facebook different having a mission statement? Every public intervention from Mark, every decision (admittedly from my undocumented point of view) is explicitly tied to that decision. I can’t remember when any of the Google triumvirate justified anything, ads or docs with their mission statement. Even negative decisions: Facebook justified not making cellphone hardware with their statement, because an OS would be more sensical -- a convoluted distinction to most, and one they might as well regret and tip-toe around when they start building antennas in Africa, but… no one would fail to see on that is directly in line with Zuckerberg’s initial idealism of “ending the conflict between Isreal and Palestinians by making them shares their stories”. No one is saying they are markedly different from the inside, but Google founders, especially with Glass, comes off as Borg operators with “God vision” (cf. the first description of a screen showing live queries on a global map on Wired, 15 years ago); Mark is still that (annoying) teenager just out of the Peace Corps who own nothing, and wants everyone to get alone.

by amaks 13y ago

kevando 13y ago

It's different in the sense their decisions that lead to becoming a'conglomerate' adhere to their mission. 3bn for Nest doesn't really help organize the world's data.

amaks 13y ago
Unless you view Nest as the source of data (which many believe it is)

coldtea 13y ago

I guess he means in that Facebook focuses on that, and Google and MS do all kinds of incompatible shit.

bertil 13y ago

> How's Facebook different having a mission statement? Every public intervention from Mark, every decision (admittedly from my undocumented point of view) is explicitly tied to that decision. I can’t remember when any of the Google triumvirate justified anything, ads or docs with their mission statement. Even negative decisions: Facebook justified not making cellphone hardware with their statement, because an OS would be more sensical -- a convoluted distinction to most, and one they might as well regret and tip-toe around when they start building antennas in Africa, but… no one would fail to see on that is directly in line with Zuckerberg’s initial idealism of “ending the conflict between Isreal and Palestinians by making them shares their stories”. No one is saying they are markedly different from the inside, but Google founders, especially with Glass, comes off as Borg operators with “God vision” (cf. the first description of a screen showing live queries on a global map on Wired, 15 years ago); Mark is still that (annoying) teenager just out of the Peace Corps who own nothing, and wants everyone to get alone.