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Congratulations! Everybody seemed bumed from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=922344 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=922344, but it looks like Don is in
by bradgessler 17y ago
Congratulations!
Everybody seemed bumed from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=922344 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=922344, but it looks like Don is in a better place. Google certainly meshes better with the YC hacker/startup scene than Microsoft; I'd expect Don's job to be a tad easier.
- jacquesm 17y agoI certainly wouldn't see either google or microsoft as 'meshing better with the YC hacker/startup scene', they're both very large companies, with all the downsides that brings.
- SlyShy 17y agoYes, but Google seems to spend more time acquiring startups, so I think his expertise isn't wasted there.
- gruseom 17y agoOh, I think you're way off base on that. Google is far more congruent with the startup community than MS is. Just to mention one example, look at the differences in how they relate to open source (and the web itself for that matter). No doubt much of this relates to their origins. Google is the very prototype of the hacker startup that goes all the way. Google's large-company-ness no doubt slows it down in a zillion ways, but there are still profound differences here (just as I'm sure there are between MS and, say, Oracle).