Re:How did Google go so wrong so quickly?
by bell-cot on Friday March 10, 2023 @04:11PM
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> ...so quickly?
Google being a very young company - it ain't like the Good Old Days(tm), when a big company used to have lots of people who'd been there for 25 to 40+ years, to say "WHOA!" if the company's culture started going sour. Plus the whole "everything is 10X faster in the internet age". And the Jack Welsh "screw honor and the common good, I'm gaming it for ME" ethos.
Also - Google's core business being pretty much a Monopoly Money Farm, there's little sense of "we gotta be careful and keep this a tightly-run and well-managed ship, or else our competition will watch us crash and burn".
Google being a very young company - it ain't like the Good Old Days(tm), when a big company used to have lots of people who'd been there for 25 to 40+ years, to say "WHOA!" if the company's culture started going sour. Plus the whole "everything is 10X faster in the internet age". And the Jack Welsh "screw honor and the common good, I'm gaming it for ME" ethos.
Also - Google's core business being pretty much a Monopoly Money Farm, there's little sense of "we gotta be careful and keep this a tightly-run and well-managed ship, or else our competition will watch us crash and burn".