Re:Google's "designer drain"
by menloparkbum on Saturday March 21, 2009 @01:43PM
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turning the online advertisement market into the new derivatives trading industry.
It's basically Wall Street West.
That is a good way to put it. But, I doubt most people think of Google in that way, including engineers.
Re:Google's "designer drain"
by chiffonade on Saturday March 21, 2009 @01:47PM
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> But, I doubt most people think of Google in that way, including engineers
You can bet the people calling the shots at Google are thinking of it that way.
Google was founded by two computer scientists, helmed by a former electrical engineer, and stacked to the rafters with mathematicians and statisticians. Their original investors were exactly the same types.
Can anyone think of another type of firm that fits this general description? That's right people - hedge funds!
Can you imagine a visual designer walking into a hedge fund and expecting free creative reign? It's absolutely naive. They were working for a bunch of quants and numbers people that are turning the online advertisement industry into a derivatives trading market.
Read that last sentence again.
Google is Wall St. West without suits or ties, I don't know why more people don't understand this better. They're blinded by bright colors I guess.