Can we take a look at what Google has done since its creation?
Google's corporate philosophy embodies such casual principles as "you can make money without doing evil," "you can be serious without a suit," and "work should be challenging and the challenge should be fun."[90]
As a motivation technique (usually called Innovation Time Off), all Google engineers are encouraged to spend 20% of their work time (one day per week) on projects that interest them. Some of Google's newer services, such as Gmail, Google News, Orkut, and AdSense originated from these independent endeavors.
I'm going to research this a bit more, but this might be a good company. I need to look more closely at its founders and current leadership (Eric Schmit?) because all I know now is they seem to be behind things that make it easier for the common man to inform himself.
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Sergey Brin and Larry Page founded google. They met at Stanford while both working toward their Ph.Ds. Brin is a Russian immigrant and Page was raised in Lansing, MI. They started google from a dorm room at Stanford attempting to make the most powerful search engine ever. After it gained traction at Stanford they decided to suspend their Ph.Ds and start the google business. I am guessing in Malcolm Gladwell "Outlier" fashion that Brin's upbringing in Communist Russia had a major impact on him believing all knowledge should be easily accessible.
ReplyDeleteSergey Brin, "Isn’t knowledge always good, and certainly always better than ignorance?"
Pro-competitive, or anti-competitive?
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