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A playground for extremely smart people they don't want their competitors to hire.
by hendzen 13y ago
A playground for extremely smart people they don't want their competitors to hire.
- batbomb 13y agoSounds a lot like research to me
- nostrademons 13y agoX is still very much run by Sergey. On the more experimental projects (i.e. not Glass or self-driving cars) you have a fair amount of freedom to experiment, but if Sergey wants something to happen a certain way, it happens that way. (For that matter, the rest of the company isn't all that different: you have a fair amount of freedom to experiment, but if Larry wants something to happen a certain way, it happens that way.)
- yuhong 13y agoBTW, I sent you an email about meeting Larry/Sergey a while ago. I just added rachelbythebay to the list too.
- TeMPOraL 13y ago> A playground for extremely smart people Which is pretty much a definition of a good research lab.
- frobozz 13y agoI believe that the second clause in hendzen's reply is the point of the statement. > ... they don't want their competitors to hire. i.e. that the purpose is not to get them to do research for Google, but to stop them doing research or development for anyone else.
- TeMPOraL 13y agoUnless they're paying them to goof around on tennis court, I don't think it matters. It's not really important for who they're doing the research (except maybe that Google is the least evil company I can think of), because ultimately whatever they invent will benefit the whole mankind.
- NamTaf 13y agoThe article might describe it as a 'product development group' but really that's just a lab for engineers rather than scientists. It's not like Los Alamos where it was science-centric research, rather it's more like PARC or what Stark Labs would be like, in that it's 'product'-centric because it's the engineering rather than scientific version of a research lab.