"Our mission is not to make Google as big as possible; it is to organize the world's information," says Laszlo Bock, vice president of people operations at Google. "If we seed the next 200 great startups, that's no bad thing."
I never looked at it this way. If Google is the catalyst of many successful startups in the future, that's also a way to leave an overall positive impact on the world. A surprisingly grown-up way of looking at things.
Who do you think will end up buying all the successful run-off companies? Its much easier just to pick the winners than mess around with a ton of investments.
I guess now's a good time if you are looking to join a startup. Just hang outside the googleplex handing out resumes to the guys driving the nicest cars who are leaving the earliest.
I never looked at it this way. If Google is the catalyst of many successful startups in the future, that's also a way to leave an overall positive impact on the world. A surprisingly grown-up way of looking at things.