Of Google's First 20 Employees, How Many Are Still There?
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#2It has attribution and everything but is just copy pasting an answer from another website journalism now?
Re: Of Google's First 20 Employees, How Many Are Still There?
#3It has attribution and everything but is just copy pasting an answer from another website journalism now?
Forbes has an agreement with Quora.
(But yes, to your point, Forbes is not a "journalism" site.)
Re: Of Google's First 20 Employees, How Many Are Still There?
#4It has attribution and everything but is just copy pasting an answer from another website journalism now?
Yes, it's called "aggregation."
Re: Of Google's First 20 Employees, How Many Are Still There?
#5Many of these are very recent departures, eg. Craig Silverstein left in Feb 2012, Amit Patel was within the last year or two, Marissa was last week. I'm kinda amazed that half of the first 20 employees had 10+ year careers there, despite being financially independent since the IPO. I read somewhere that median Silicon Valley job tenure is about 2-3 years.
Re: Of Google's First 20 Employees, How Many Are Still There?
#6It has attribution and everything but is just copy pasting an answer from another website journalism now?
For non-anonymous answers, they ask the writer before publishing. I was just published on there, and got a Quora message asking for my permission. Not sure how they handle anonymous answers.
Re: Of Google's First 20 Employees, How Many Are Still There?
#7It has attribution and everything but is just copy pasting an answer from another website journalism now?
For non-anonymous answers, they ask the writer before publishing. I was just published on there, and got a Quora message asking for my permission. Not sure how they handle anonymous answers.
Presumably Quora knows who the Anonymous Users are and can facilitate contacting them
Re: Of Google's First 20 Employees, How Many Are Still There?
#8Many of these are very recent departures, eg. Craig Silverstein left in Feb 2012, Amit Patel was within the last year or two, Marissa was last week. I'm kinda amazed that half of the first 20 employees had 10+ year careers there, despite being financially independent since the IPO. I read somewhere that median Silicon Valley job tenure is about 2-3 years.
Tenures are not 2-3 years when you're financially independent. When you have an epic trump card in all conversations about what you should spend your time on, do you think you'd spend more than a minute doing something you didn't want to?
I believe the term is "fuck-you money".
""" This is an allusion to a Randy/Avi conversation of two years ago wherein Avi actually calculated a specific numerical value for "fuck-you money." It was not a fixed constant, however, but rather a cell in a spreadsheet linked to any number of continually fluctuating economic indicators. """
Re: Of Google's First 20 Employees, How Many Are Still There?
#9Many of these are very recent departures, eg. Craig Silverstein left in Feb 2012, Amit Patel was within the last year or two, Marissa was last week. I'm kinda amazed that half of the first 20 employees had 10+ year careers there, despite being financially independent since the IPO. I read somewhere that median Silicon Valley job tenure is about 2-3 years.
that job tenure sounds about right for SV from where i'm sitting in sunnyvale.
Re: Of Google's First 20 Employees, How Many Are Still There?
#10It has attribution and everything but is just copy pasting an answer from another website journalism now?
Yes, and that is a great thing. When journalism was the old school "I get a few bits of info and use it to decorate a short article with my uninformed opinion about random topics I have nothing to do with", it was worse. Each time I had an insider knowledge of the topic, I was horrified by how biased, approximate, reductive, or plain wrong journalism was.
I also have direct reports (my wife) of journalists asking questions in the streets to many people until they got the answer they were looking for. I bet it is common practice: you are not only told to write a piece about X, you are also implicitly told what to write and you just bend your material, data or street interview or whatnot, in the direction that will get the more emotional reaction from the reader.
Disc: I'm talking about French journalism here, maybe US journalism or Eskimo journalism is magically much better, I don't know.