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Googles first trillion (thelemmy.club)

submitted 4 days ago by FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] Gumus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

1000015125

[-] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

tv guy? vox? lore accurate google

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago

i regret getting suckered in by this slogan SO MUCH rn.

[-] Malyca@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 days ago

I think they really believed in it for the first few years

[-] jve@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah, idk for sure about leadership, but a lot of googlers really did.

There’s a bunch of stories about employees pushing back and trying to organize. Some successful. But that old guard has been moving on or being pushed out for a long time now.

https://fortune.com/longform/inside-googles-civil-war/

No paywall: https://archive.ph/lkkXU

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

That's because the people did and accidentally bumping up against the leadership makes me I doubt that they ever gave AF

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago

I think they got rid of that slogan when the company wasn't even worth many billion

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 days ago

2018, according to Wikipedia.

[-] einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago

Google always been evil, and "dont be evil" was a warning to the user to not search for fucked up shit or u end up on a list.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It legitimately was for them, if you're being serious.

Unfortunately, you make a publicly traded company, and it will always act like a publicly traded company, in the end. No pithy saying in the code of conduct will change that. It's like how every dictatorship tends to become a monarchy.

[-] bedwyr@piefed.ca 5 points 3 days ago

Stock pricing is not actual money if that is what this post is referencing in the first trillion dollars part.

Income production makes value primarily. None of these tech parasites are even close to meeting the around 12-1 income to price ratio.

They will get bailed out when the market falls too, which is why the prices are unreasonably high, investors know those companies have leverage to force the feds to bail them out.