The Google Culture Question, A Law of Large Companies, Twitter's Algorithm Plans, Apple's Attempt at Glucose Monitoring
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson
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VC Approach - Is There a Law of Competition?
The Department of Justice was seeking sanctions because Google employees were communicating on channels that delete every day as opposed to putting anything of substance in an email. When you're a large dominant company with a dominant business model, there is no infinite upside and if something goes terribly wrong, there is downside. It becomes this insular environment where success or failure is a function of how much people inside of the company like you or don't like you. And one of the tricks of management for sure is to try to limit this but I'm honestly not sure if it's possible.
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