Google’s greatest evil is grooming brilliant 22 year olds into becoming complacent careerists instead of ambitious founders who might one day compete with them
@justindross They actually train 22 year olds and give them understanding of company structure so they can go out and start their own companies. Tons of employees leave to start big companies. I see "former Googler on tons of pitch decks".
@TysonQuick Not many successful ones of the last decade that I know of
@TysonQuick I’d bet @rabois would consider more than 18 months at Google to be a red flag for founders without a compelling personal financial reason for having been there
@justindross @TysonQuick especially in product eng or design.
@rabois @justindross @TysonQuick 1. Too much focus on consensus before building (spending 2 days writing a 20 page document should not be rewarded!) 2. Everything is over-engineered 3. No focus on the user first and reasoning backwards from the UX 4. No understanding of sales/bizdev Crippling for startups.