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The final days of Google

Posted by mwelch May 30, 2007 01:15 PM

Source: I, Cringely

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Bob Cringely says that if Google gets beaten by another company it's likely the founders will come from Google itself. Why? They've hired thousands of "straight-from-university geniuses, straight-from-start-up geniuses, and straight-from-Microsoft/IBM/Yahoo/wherever geniuses" all of whom are paid to work 20 percent of the time on developing new ideas most of which Google can't implement. And then there's the fact that the members of Google's "entrepreneurial petri dish" will soon begin vesting their stock options. Those who have planned "their future companies over free sushi and Diet Coke late at night in Google cafeterias" will start to visit Sand Hill Road all on their own.

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070524_002134.html

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