When I joined Google in 2006, there's like somewhere around like 3,000 workers at Google total. And so you have a bunch of folks who are just well-meaning nerds. A lot of them were there and like just tickle, because they got rich by doing something that was naturally interesting to them anyway. Sarah Edelman: How do you reverse engineer a history that makes you deserving of what you got? She says power corrupts your brain.
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