1 in 5 Facebook Employees Worked at Google
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1 in 5 Facebook Employees Worked at Google
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Re: 1 in 5 Facebook Employees Worked at Google
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Re: 1 in 5 Facebook Employees Worked at Google
#3It isn't about imagination. It is the cycle of the valley. Mature companies have employees go to found their own companies or join other pre-IPO startups. Working for Google you'll have a great career and quality of life but going to Facebook has the potential to make you quite a bit more money through equity.
Re: 1 in 5 Facebook Employees Worked at Google
#4Not everyone wants to be in a startup. People running from Google to FB may be doing it for a different culture, for more money, or for a slight change in what they're doing. There's nothing wrong with that.
Re: 1 in 5 Facebook Employees Worked at Google
#5It isn't about imagination. It is the cycle of the valley. Mature companies have employees go to found their own companies or join other pre-IPO startups. Working for Google you'll have a great career and quality of life but going to Facebook has the potential to make you quite a bit more money through equity.
So is that the true motivation for all of these xooglers? Cash in on something before they're completely burned out?
Re: 1 in 5 Facebook Employees Worked at Google
#6The bottom line is this - if you were to place a bet (as in betting your career) on which company will be dominant 20 years from now and which will become yet another dying Internet fad, I'd bet in favor of Facebook. Absolutely everyone overestimates Google's chances of continuing to dominate forever.
Re: 1 in 5 Facebook Employees Worked at Google
#7The bottom line is this - if you were to place a bet (as in betting your career) on which company will be dominant 20 years from now and which will become yet another dying Internet fad, I'd bet in favor of Facebook. Absolutely everyone overestimates Google's chances of continuing to dominate forever.
What more can Facebook do vs. Google? Seems there's more options at Google IMO. (I don't work at Google, but wish I did).
Re: 1 in 5 Facebook Employees Worked at Google
#8The bottom line is this - if you were to place a bet (as in betting your career) on which company will be dominant 20 years from now and which will become yet another dying Internet fad, I'd bet in favor of Facebook. Absolutely everyone overestimates Google's chances of continuing to dominate forever.
Let's see, looking back at 1990... I'd bet on neither, but I sure wouldn't bet on the one far more easily replaced by a distributed secure system. Diaspora may seem like a joke now, but 20 years of development on Diaspora('s great grandchild)? Getting a standardized distributed social networking account will be like getting an email address is today.
Re: 1 in 5 Facebook Employees Worked at Google
#9The bottom line is this - if you were to place a bet (as in betting your career) on which company will be dominant 20 years from now and which will become yet another dying Internet fad, I'd bet in favor of Facebook. Absolutely everyone overestimates Google's chances of continuing to dominate forever.
Companies that will dominate 20 years from now won't exist for another 19 years, so..
Re: 1 in 5 Facebook Employees Worked at Google
#10The bottom line is this - if you were to place a bet (as in betting your career) on which company will be dominant 20 years from now and which will become yet another dying Internet fad, I'd bet in favor of Facebook. Absolutely everyone overestimates Google's chances of continuing to dominate forever.
> The bottom line is this - if you were to place a bet (as in betting your career) on which company will be dominant 20 years from now and which will become yet another dying Internet fad, I'd bet in favor of Facebook.
You statement is ambiguous; it doesn't say whether facebook will be the former or the latter. (my take is it could easily go either way).