John BattelleVerified account

They willingly retired a phrase that distinguished it from other companies & helped it attract sought after engineers? Not only is this an abandonment of core beliefs, it also impacts the company's #culture.

@brave's "can't be evil" is a better standard.

Little known caveat to their motto (sotto voce) "until it's too late to stop us"

It feels like once you have established so prominent and binary a principle, you're kinda stuck with it. Because the act of removing it is the act of saying "well, maybe there's a little moral gray area now."

Well, how long did you expect them to resist evil? The lure of Satan is irresistible