Re:Alphabet overtakes Apple to become most cash-rich company
by georgewsinger on Friday August 02, 2019 @11:56PM
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Weird that this is downvoted.
Re:Alphabet overtakes Apple to become most cash-rich company
by tim333 on Saturday August 03, 2019 @05:07PM
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I think maybe the downvoters feel the Google guys do care. Though it seems more
>We are excited about… Getting more ambitious things done. Taking the long-term view. Empowering great entrepreneurs and companies to flourish.
that they are into empowering the organisation rather than being into particular bits of tech like iPhones or rockets.
It's not what he knows per se, it's what he does, it's the source of his motivation for being and doing.
It's that invention and innovation is most often driven by individuals - whether acting together or in solitary - in pursuit of something that matters to them. You saw this throughout the industrial revolution. You saw it at Bell Labs and Xerox PARC. You saw it with regards to the individuals that pushed the Internet and tech universe forward, from Ted Hoff to Dennis Ritchie to Tim Berners Lee.
It wasn't a giant corporation and team of 100 people that created Doom and Quake. It was a tiny team of highly motivated people doing something that mattered to them. That same conceptual story frequently occurs throughout modern history.
Elon Musk desperately wanted (wants) to build Tesla and SpaceX. Steve Jobs cared about Apple as though he were maniacal about it, like it was his true love. Who at the very top of Alphabet/Google cares about anything they do there that much? I haven't seen any evidence that there is anyone at the top of their organization that fits that.