Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings
by lisper on Friday November 15, 2019 @07:58PM
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> If you remove infinite money and market dominance would it still work out in the end ? My guess is that it wouldn't.
Google in the early days didn't have infinite money nor market dominance and it obviously worked out. Doing what they did is what got them from A to B.
Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings
by scarface74 on Friday November 15, 2019 @08:05PM
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And Apple, Amazon and Microsoft are nothing like that and two of the three are more profitable. Correlation is not causation.
Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings
by lisper on Friday November 15, 2019 @08:09PM
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I didn't say it was. But the GP asked:
> If you remove infinite money and market dominance would it still work out in the end ?
And the answer to that is clearly: yes. It would because it did.
Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings
by ggm on Friday November 15, 2019 @08:25PM
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Is there a variant of Godwin's law/meme that all conversations on HN about politics degenerate to hitting each other over neoliberal economics, the CoC and men's rights?
Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings
by shadowgovt on Friday November 15, 2019 @10:54PM
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CoC?
The best recipe for a company that isn't printing billions of dollars from Advertising to go bankrupt is try to follow their book and culture.
If you remove infinite money and market dominance would it still work out in the end ? My guess is that it wouldn't.
Google feels sometimes very much like startups with VC money just being inefficient and burning other people money, except of course, Google is burning it's own money that is generated from the non sexy / cool stuff (ads and enterprise email / storage )...