I'm sure they get a lot of false negatives, which is arguably better than false ...

tom_rath · on March 25, 2008

Still, they're in danger of establishing an intellectual monoculture, and those tend to get wiped out when environments change.

I'm interested in seeing whether the same mix of staff and company structure can prosper in a recession.

tim2 · on March 25, 2008

You do realize that this is the antithesis of the core reason of why startups work, yes?

What's fundamental is that it is those few abnormal people who change the world 1000x more than the regular person. When you have near infinite money like Google, I'd be very afraid of missing out on those few people who are going to carry the company.