Uhm, I think you lost the game when you had a BADGE to cover up.
If you have a name badge, it's not a startup.
Re:Steve's Google Platform rant
by nostrademons on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @02:55PM
(#3104009)
Google never actually claims they're a startup, they just say they want to be like a startup.
There're varying degrees of success at this, ranging from "if I squint really hard, I could almost see it" to "Yeah...I don't think so." But I give 'em props for trying, as most companies with 30k employees don't even make the effort.
BTW, I could go all the way up to the VP level within the Search bigwigs and they'd be able to answer this.
- What's my name? (Covering your badge, naturally)
- What am I working on?
- Where am I from?
If the bigwigs can't answer that, I'm sorry, you've moved past actual startup-dom and you're just in la-la land where you just think you are one.
Unfortunately, I only thought of this acid test after leaving a place with 30K employees which had started proclaiming it semi-regularly during their Friday get-togethers.