“Getting laid off is one thing, but being disowned by your family after 18 years is another. And that’s what Google did to us. People I worked with for 10 years are not allowed to bring us in for lunch to say goodbye” nytimes.com/2023/02/23/opi…
"Larry Page said, if only we could have two million people working at this company, think of all the good we can do in the world. Think of all the problems we can solve that governments can’t"
"So my job was to prove out & demonstrate to the world YouTube’s net value to society. And again, it’s challenging to do that job if you don’t really believe that’s true"
"And meanwhile, it feels like the world is starting to burn. And it just felt like we were trying to take credit for solving the world’s problems when we were actually making them worse"
"I think that it’s precisely what the opposite of what Larry & Sergey intended for the company. They said we are not a conventional company & we do not intend to become one. Well, Google has become a pretty conventional company. I think a lot of the big tech companies are"
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