Google Grows Up: A Necessary Evil? - Joshua Gans - Harvard Business Review
James Whittaker left Google and wrote about it. Long story short: Google came under "new" management (which was actually really old management returning) and started focusing on its core products rather than being "all about the technology." The staff — and this is surely not a shock — don't much like it. As Whittaker wrote, The days of old Google hiring smart people and empowering them to invent the future was gone. The new Google...
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