It is not about hiring people, it is culture and inertia. You can hire the most brilliant people, yet they can't accomplish much if the culture isn't right. Google probably has better talent density than Anthropic and OpenAI, yet it can't compete[1]. Companies can do amazing things when the founder is around and sets a vision and culture. After that, its downhill. Has happened to all companies. They all go down. Apple is going down, but it is hard to see because it still has momentum from the founders charisma. Steve Jobs wouldn't have approved most of the products that Apple is selling now and allowed ads and enshittification.
[1] https://pravse.medium.com/the-maze-is-in-the-mouse-980c57cfd...: The way I see it, Google has four core cultural problems. They are all the natural consequences of having a money-printing machine called “Ads” that has kept growing relentlessly every year, hiding all other sins.
(1) no mission, (2) no urgency, (3) delusions of exceptionalism, (4) mismanagement.
[1] https://pravse.medium.com/the-maze-is-in-the-mouse-980c57cfd...: The way I see it, Google has four core cultural problems. They are all the natural consequences of having a money-printing machine called “Ads” that has kept growing relentlessly every year, hiding all other sins.
(1) no mission, (2) no urgency, (3) delusions of exceptionalism, (4) mismanagement.