"Its like being an awesome carpenter and saying “I want to go work at Ikea” so I can churn out follower products like an open-source mobile OS 5 years after Symbian or web-based email 10 years after Hotmail or a webOS 3 years after Palm did it. Way to gooooo, you are such wonderful innovators, you are applying the Microsoft method of “do it several years after everybody else”."
He then proposes that these developers instead work at a company that is producing a simple email device fifteen years after the launch of RIM's predecessor of the BlackBerry.
Yeah, I'm not sure I'd want to work with this guy. Working at Google may not be like a starup, but you're with some of the most intelligent and well respected developers in the industry working on products that when launched, will instantly be used by millions of people.
Also, Gmail, Android and other Google platforms haven't innovated anything and they probably should have never been made.
I think the "most intelligent" Google line is also crap-ola. My friends who ended up working at Google were not the best of the bunch at all, especially vs the ones I know at start-ups. I've worked at start-ups that had dev teams that could eat every google developer I know for lunch.
That was pretty idiotic. First, he insults them (" bunch of hyper-rational introverts with no friends, who are massively arrogant about their math skills"), then wants to hire them.
Dan, no one wants to work on BlackBerry's retarded cousin.
What he neglects to realize is that projects officially supported by Google, first must gain recognition within the company itself. I don't think any of them think that Google has the same monetary issues as a startup, but they do have to convince people inside of Google to recognize their project, devote time to it (whether its their 20% or their actual job). Also, the idea that Googlers don't contribute anything new to the playing field is ridiculous. I think a simple browsing of http://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html should be enough to refute that idea.
While Google isn't exactly a startup, I think there are certainly analogies to be made.
no, really, thats wrong. There are no analogies. Selling an idea and "democratic" innovation processes are as big company as it gets. Verizon does the same thing for the love of god.
Innovation comes in many forms... just because someone has made something already doesn't mean you can't improve on it. Companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple etc... give startuppers a platform, an idea to improve upon or a hole to fill.
Your life is an representation of cookie cutter, no? Starving entrepreneur, writing on his ghetto web blog like a million other people trying to be...unique? If I were you I'd get over the rejection of your last interview, lift your head high and move on.
Real entrepreneurs have to worry about culture, they can’t just hire a bunch of hyper-rational introverts with no friends, who are massively arrogant about their math skills…and cookie cutter follower zombies in the world of technology.
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Anyways, all this to say, if you want to try to do things differently, if you want actual, real entrepreneurial experience and a real start-up job… we need a killer dev at Peek.
Hmm, that's a tactic I haven't seen before, trolling for new hires.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 34.4 ms ] threadHe then proposes that these developers instead work at a company that is producing a simple email device fifteen years after the launch of RIM's predecessor of the BlackBerry.
Also, Gmail, Android and other Google platforms haven't innovated anything and they probably should have never been made.
Dan, no one wants to work on BlackBerry's retarded cousin.
While Google isn't exactly a startup, I think there are certainly analogies to be made.
Your life is an representation of cookie cutter, no? Starving entrepreneur, writing on his ghetto web blog like a million other people trying to be...unique? If I were you I'd get over the rejection of your last interview, lift your head high and move on.
Leave the Googlers alone, they just want to code.
Or he just has some bizarre vendetta against Google in general.
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Anyways, all this to say, if you want to try to do things differently, if you want actual, real entrepreneurial experience and a real start-up job… we need a killer dev at Peek.
Hmm, that's a tactic I haven't seen before, trolling for new hires.