Google is Web 2.0 "get off my lawn" Mecca, they ignored this space until Meta.
People go there because they just caught on to the compensation packages and are going to catch on to Web3 compensation packages just as late. They already work on overly complicated stacks for useless cogs on useless products that Google shuts down randomly.
Have you seen what "backend" competency entails these days? Its absurd!
It might. This keeps these people out of the job market.
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https://timroughgarden.github.io/fob21/l/l1.pdf
I doubt roughgarden is excited about blockchains just because he has some tokens
You mentioned that there are true believers, so i thought you referred to the commenters on the topic, since you linked to the HN topic and not the pdf associated with that topic.
Which is a bit confusing tbh :p
Definitely since you both submitted it, have the top comment on it and I don't know him.
It doesn’t make sense that Google would keep people around, pay them a lot of money, have them produce useless projects without the same asymmetric upside potential, all to keep them from going to companies that weren’t even competitors in the first place.