A fascinatingly candid post about what happens when you get acquired by a big company. Which also, incidentally, implicitly explains how startups can beat big companies.https://paygo.media/p/25171
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Any thoughts on whether the nature of the beast can, in fact, be overcome? Also, despite the big Corp-Tech sounding like a gigantic mess of misaligned incentives gone haywire, it does continue to be a money-printing juggernaut. Is it only a matter of time before this ends?
I believe Google is a money printing juggernaut despite the gigantic mess, not because of it. The extraordinary profitability of their underlying business gives them room to be inefficient. It's not a coincidence that the employees sound like spoiled rich kids.
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What do you think successful startups can do so that they don't become another Google (I know it sounds strange)? Noam mentioned compensation structure as a potential solution but it likely also puts you at a competitive disadvantage in hiring.
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Why wouldnt a company want to become a money printing juggernaut? Every company wants to become one and for the lucky few that achieve it the end result is inevitable - but hard to argue against becoming a juggernaut because once achieved complacency subsumes you.
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