<story><title>Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt&apos;s Leaked Stanford Talk</title><url>https://github.com/ociubotaru/transcripts/blob/main/Stanford_ECON295%E2%A7%B8CS323_I_2024_I_The_Age_of_AI%2C_Eric_Schmidt.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tgma</author><text>I think the reporting of his quote overemphasizes on &amp;quot;work from home&amp;quot; piece of his sentence as that fits right into a continuous obsession&amp;#x2F;bike sheds.&lt;p&gt;Whether &amp;quot;work from home&amp;quot; is the cause or not, I think he is absolutely right on the latter part of his sentence, that contrary to startups, almost no individual at Google has the fire or drive in them to &lt;i&gt;play to win&lt;/i&gt;. If you are young and you go work at Google, they will beat that fire out of you very quickly. &amp;quot;Work&amp;quot; from home is just one way that nobody-cares attitude is manifesting itself. [BTW, that attitude is by no means exclusive to ICs; definitely leadership has it as well, perhaps more so.]</text></item><item><author>Ozzie_osman</author><text>His explanation for Google losing to OpenAI on GenAI: &amp;quot;Google decided that work life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;What a tremendous lack of self-awareness. Let&amp;#x27;s put aside all the leadership issues, all the politics, all the complacency, all the bureaucracy, and blame people for working from home.&lt;p&gt;(Not saying there aren&amp;#x27;t folks at Google who are just cruising, etc... but that&amp;#x27;s a fraction of the problem compared to the leadership issues)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BossingAround</author><text>&amp;gt; almost no individual at Google has the fire or drive in them to play to win&lt;p&gt;Yes, that&amp;#x27;s why you go to large megacorps. I wouldn&amp;#x27;t go to Oracle, IBM, Google, Facebook, MS, etc. etc. if I had a &amp;quot;huge fire or a drive to win&amp;quot;. Honestly, I go there because I wanna work 5 hours a day (less if possible) and have a stable career.&lt;p&gt;If I want to work 9-12h a day, give me an upside. None of these huge megacorps will reward that.&lt;p&gt;If I&amp;#x27;m the lead of a Goog project that becomes a hit, do I get $10M bonus? Of course not. I get a pat on the back and something to put in my packet for the next promotion interview.&lt;p&gt;So you&amp;#x27;re absolutely right, but the problem is not in people. It&amp;#x27;s in the way the system&amp;#x27;s designed.</text></comment>
<story><title>Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt&apos;s Leaked Stanford Talk</title><url>https://github.com/ociubotaru/transcripts/blob/main/Stanford_ECON295%E2%A7%B8CS323_I_2024_I_The_Age_of_AI%2C_Eric_Schmidt.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tgma</author><text>I think the reporting of his quote overemphasizes on &amp;quot;work from home&amp;quot; piece of his sentence as that fits right into a continuous obsession&amp;#x2F;bike sheds.&lt;p&gt;Whether &amp;quot;work from home&amp;quot; is the cause or not, I think he is absolutely right on the latter part of his sentence, that contrary to startups, almost no individual at Google has the fire or drive in them to &lt;i&gt;play to win&lt;/i&gt;. If you are young and you go work at Google, they will beat that fire out of you very quickly. &amp;quot;Work&amp;quot; from home is just one way that nobody-cares attitude is manifesting itself. [BTW, that attitude is by no means exclusive to ICs; definitely leadership has it as well, perhaps more so.]</text></item><item><author>Ozzie_osman</author><text>His explanation for Google losing to OpenAI on GenAI: &amp;quot;Google decided that work life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;What a tremendous lack of self-awareness. Let&amp;#x27;s put aside all the leadership issues, all the politics, all the complacency, all the bureaucracy, and blame people for working from home.&lt;p&gt;(Not saying there aren&amp;#x27;t folks at Google who are just cruising, etc... but that&amp;#x27;s a fraction of the problem compared to the leadership issues)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ggjkvcxddd</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s ludicrous to lay this at the feet of individual employees and assert that they&amp;#x27;re all just lazy with no drive etc.&lt;p&gt;Google has severe cultural problems and the responsibility for that should be assumed by the leadership.</text></comment>