Alphabet’s Chief Legal Officer Stepping Down Amid Investigation

Post by ksec » Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 11:50 PM UTC

nostrademons wrote: post #158

tmpz22 wrote: post #144

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> "HR told me that Sergey's response to it was, 'Why not? They're my employees,'" Ayers said. "But you don't have employees for f---ing! That's not what the job is." Ooooof. That shatters the "Early on Google's culture was great!" narrative... [1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/google-sergey-brin-employees...

Not really. Eric Schmidt (also a notorious womanizer) had a saying while I was there: "More revenue solves all known problems." When everybody at the company is getting rich, they're all working on exciting problems, Fortune and Time and BusinessWeek and Playboy magazines are featuring employees on the cover, and everyone you meet is impressed at where you work, then employees are willing to overlook a large number o…

Post by ksec » Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 11:57 PM UTC

qroshan wrote: post #109

loganfrederick wrote: post #79

I really liked Ben Horowitz's new book "What You Do Is Who You Are". However, the only passage that I disliked and stood out to me is when he defended David Drummond for his ability to thrive at Google for a long time despite the corporate culture changing. This was after Drummond was called out publicly for abandoning his kid he had with a subordinate: https://www.law.com/corpcounsel/2018/10/25/report-alphabet-c...…

Steve Jobs also abandoned his kid. He created a $1 Trillion company.

Post by yifanl » Sat, Jan 11, 2020, 12:03 AM UTC

hackinthebochs wrote: post #155

rayiner wrote: post #135

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People routinely get pregnant despite using hormonal birth control. (Condoms are even less effective.) The purpose of sex is having kids, and unsurprisingly humans are very good at conception. If you don’t want to have kids, don’t have sex.

>If you don’t want to have kids, don’t have sex. How do you square this with your claim in a sister comment of "by virtue of their right to control their own bodies can abort a baby before it is born"

Post by hackinthebochs » Sat, Jan 11, 2020, 12:08 AM UTC

yifanl wrote: post #175

hackinthebochs wrote: post #155

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>If you don’t want to have kids, don’t have sex. How do you square this with your claim in a sister comment of "by virtue of their right to control their own bodies can abort a baby before it is born"

Someone may not want to have a kid and also object to having an abortion for any number of personal and/or religious reasons.

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jan 11, 2020, 12:17 AM UTC

baddox wrote: post #169

loganfrederick wrote: post #79

I really liked Ben Horowitz's new book "What You Do Is Who You Are". However, the only passage that I disliked and stood out to me is when he defended David Drummond for his ability to thrive at Google for a long time despite the corporate culture changing. This was after Drummond was called out publicly for abandoning his kid he had with a subordinate: https://www.law.com/corpcounsel/2018/10/25/report-alphabet-c...…

> but it's not like Google couldn't find a great legal chief who also wasn't a terrible person. This is actually an argument I wish would come up more often in cases where prominent people are fired or lose opportunities due to misconduct. Critics invariably react as if there aren't hundreds or thousands of qualified people for the position who didn't conduct themselves inappropriately, but I would argue that there a…