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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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.
I've been thinking about that since I read his post. It's an important question. Measured by monetary value, one of the most important in the world. I don't have answers yet. If there are answers, they're hard to find, since even Google doesn't have them. But I'm going to look.
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Another thing that this discussion makes me think about is the idea of "end of life" for companies. If a person has had a wonderful life and achieved amazing things, at some point he/she starts to think about legacy and posterity, slows pace and prepares for leaving this world.
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Companies obviously do not. Google, by any number of measures, has been one of the most astounding successes of any human enterprise, corporate or otherwise. Is the only path for a company like Google to keep going forward, or does it make sense for it to think about "the end"?
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Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple have evolved differently. It's fascinating how different the cultures are. There are multiple viable paths for startups that become huge. Presumably, Google chose their path. But did decisions 20 yrs ago force who they are now?
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How about tying X% of engineers' salaries to the project they are working on, so that killing the project kills X% of their salary? That way projects might be run more like small startups inside
@Google.https://twitter.com/PetrusTheron/status/1350402569093455872?s=20 … -
From article: "In a Corporation, the employee alignment is to the Corporations brand, not to the product (i.e. Google, not Gmail; Facebook, not Instagram). The product is a tool to advance the employees career, not a passion, mission or economic game changer."
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