Apart from many "unknowns", every month 2-4 top-Googlers are leaving. Almost without fail they do so in order to recapture the thrill of innovation, to start a startup.
This is Google the Corporation: bored at the core.
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This is Google the Corporation: bored at the core.
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Hmmm, maybe thats why theyve been causing commotion all over the internet, just to get rid of their boredom...
I think the commotion theyre causing is another sign of Google the Corporation. Its Google consolidating its hold on a pretty substantial part of the web.As corporate behavior gains the upperhand, doing new and exciting stuff *beyond* sitting on skippy balls is getting harder and harder.Many who *do* get creative find themselves boxed in these days, stonewalled. The Platypus/GDrive project is a good example. Dodgeball another.By itself its not specificially good or bad -- its just one of those things that is; young, fun, fast startup turns into nervous, scared, slow moving dino :)
Meh. Seriously, give me a lame button.Maybe 15,000 people need to each write a blog post announcing that they are not leaving Google. ;)Also, http://battellemedia.com/archives/001227.php
Ruud,I liked the way you set that out by month. It was interesting data presented that way. Perhaps Google has acted as a bit of a greenhouse for all of these bright people, and now they need to take what theyve learned and keep growing on their own. Im still finding Google exciting, mostly because of the Local stuff, but also because of the change of atmosphere you noted in your post and the shift in the SEM industry from Google glorification to suspicion that is so evident everywhere now. Its always such a pleasure to read your writing, Ruud.Miriam
Im with Brian here.
Seriously Brian ... it would be good to hear from the Google employee perspective too. I dont think Ruuds outta line here, just trying to make sense of everything going on. Were certainly not getting fed any information from the inside, so where information gaps exists, speculation will fill those gaps ... its a basic HR prinicple. You know everything Google does is under a microscope of the media ... and we (bloggers) are the media these days.What can you tell us to balance the perspective?
*zzzzz*
I never had this much thrill and saw this much innovation at my own startup :). Seriously. This company rocks, the people here rock.
Jeff, I point to Johns comment as hes joined more recently than me :)