I'm growing to believe that the greatest folly of humankind is the idea of permanence.
We love to cling on to what we have and fight against anything that might remove it from us. Even when we would benefit from the loss.
So it is with companies. Just because Google was an amazing toddler doesn't mean it's an amazing grown-up. Plenty of our angelic youngsters turn out to be grade-A assholes or psychopaths a few years later on.
Which is to say, the google that we knew back in the 90s and 2000s is dead, and has been for a long time.
We love to cling on to what we have and fight against anything that might remove it from us. Even when we would benefit from the loss.
So it is with companies. Just because Google was an amazing toddler doesn't mean it's an amazing grown-up. Plenty of our angelic youngsters turn out to be grade-A assholes or psychopaths a few years later on.
Which is to say, the google that we knew back in the 90s and 2000s is dead, and has been for a long time.