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YouTube was a huge early acquisition for them around 2005 or 2006.
True, although I thought there was another big one whose name escapes me. Any ideas? Thanks for mentioning that for the rest of HN’s sake.
DoubleClick and Waze are two other big ones that I remember seeming important at the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
There is no evidence layoffs are a good idea from a fiscal perspective either, except in the short term. They're basically random so you loose good talent and you demoralize the best that stay. It should be reserved for dire circumstance.
And if you must, cut deep and cut only once. Trickling out monthly layoffs is far more demoralizing and instills a culture of fear and uncertainty.
It's a huge red flag. Layoffs typically lead to more people leaving the company after the fact because of the instability. I was one of the "last man standing," after a company did this over a period of a few quarters and I ended up leaving shortly after. They no longer had anyone to maintain their software. Oops.
They taught this in business school back in the 1990s. I don't know why a company the caliber of Google wouldn't understand this. It could be the execs think that Google is such a stellar place to work that none of the remaining people would dare leave. It could be the execs are so self concerned, they don't care about anything other than their bonuses and just make sure to get cuts in before each quarter ends to pad their bonus. It could be business schools just don't teach this anymore.
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Because not everyone who raises a child is their actual parent. See also the need for terms like “caretaker”, and “legal guardian”.
Is a grandparent who raises their grandchildren offended by the word parent? I doubt it.
What’s the point?
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I have friends who are child raisers but not biological parents.
The main point is whether you are a primary carer for a child below school age.
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Because not everyone who raises a child is their actual parent. See also the need for terms like “caretaker”, and “legal guardian”.
Why do we have to change our language (and behaviour) for the edge cases? Is a grandparent who raises their grandchildren offended by the word parent? I doubt it. What’s the point?
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Because not everyone who raises a child is their actual parent. See also the need for terms like “caretaker”, and “legal guardian”.
Why do we have to change our language (and behaviour) for the edge cases? Is a grandparent who raises their grandchildren offended by the word parent? I doubt it. What’s the point?
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i keep thinking about this google arc. I was there for nearly a decade (at this point i've almost been gone for longer than I was there) and from the outside, the company is almost unrecognizable. it is definitely not the company that it was pre 2010. from my lowly IC5 (when I left) position, it felt like something happened in 2014 or so that really put the company on a different track. eric had already left and the…
This tracks with what I saw as an outside observer; I felt like around 2015 was the inflection point where Google started its slow arc toward mediocrity. It seemed like maybe Eric Schmidt's departure had something to do with it, though it's possible that was just coincidence.
Another option is that he saw the trajectory of the company culture and wanted out.
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Because not everyone who raises a child is their actual parent. See also the need for terms like “caretaker”, and “legal guardian”.
Why do we have to change our language (and behaviour) for the edge cases? Is a grandparent who raises their grandchildren offended by the word parent? I doubt it. What’s the point?
Seriously. I work in accounting and also do scripting and IT support. For a group who has to be precise with numbers, they’re frustratingly vague with words. Some of us got it, and some of us don’t.