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Re:Google cuts office space in Bay Area by more than a milli... by thesuitonym on Friday June 09, 2023 @01:00AM (#36253415)
You're right, and I addressed this in another reply, but keeping a good company culture requires a very special leadership team, and it can't and won't last forever.
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Re:Google cuts office space in Bay Area by more than a milli... by htag on Friday June 09, 2023 @01:07AM (#36253471)
* Eventually ownership will disperse from the core group of initial owners to investors in general

* As a larger ownership moves towards investors, decisions are made that sacrifice the special sauce in order to increase returns.

* Appeasing general investors leads towards enshittification.

Sometimes a strong leader (Jobs, Cook) can keep the investor class as bay for a period. Sometimes leadership can be consolidated for long periods of time to delay the process (Walton, Zuck), but it feels inevitable after IPO.

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