> All of these companies are tremendously successful and produce great software. Well, they were. More recently (since the headcounts exploded and the open-off

> All of these companies are tremendously successful and produce great software. Well, they were. More recently (since the headcounts exploded and the open-office fad picked up) they've been coasting along with the S&P500 overall performance and upseting users. > If you think about working on improving Google search I thnk about concentrating to deeply analyzing lots of subtle data using advanced mathematics, not spitballing cool ideas. > Productivity? Or Creativity? Lots of creativity with no productivity: great idea that never launch, or launch with fatal flaws that never get fixed, and products that get shuttered. > smart people who are all collaborating Most humans can barely remember the identities of 100 people at once. How can they be "all collaborating" all day in the office. Hmm.