DISQUS

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Google putting up fence and gate to keep execs from leaving

  • gEvil · 1 year ago
    Couldn't agree more. Everyone's f-ing tired of the "semi-nasty super-spoiled children who really believe they're superior beings" with their "Don't be Evil" shit, given that they can't wait 2 secs before getting on their knees and sucking up to the Chinese. While the Tibetans are being burnt alive, the frigtard edits and keeps any news of that showing up on his search-engine results.
  • J · 1 year ago
    I laugh at you, since as far as I know they're a private company. Since that's the case they could what they want. What would you do without being able to 'google' something. They could close up shop, without any loss to them and cause all sorts of havoc.
  • lastangelman · 1 year ago
    And you know what? There is something really evil about taking thousands of the world's smartest young people and using them to sell online text ads more efficiently. Really. Think of all the really interesting and important things that this pool of brainpower could be addressing.

    1.)Creating the ultimate user interface?
    2.)Organize itself as the first humano-biological computational distributed array using an obscure Zen Buddhist mantra, eleven thousand grains of brown rice, a single Peruvian potato, a seventy-eight hundred foot piece of copper wire, two kilos of South Texan and New Mexican peyote buttons, four kilos of Columbian flake and a George Harrison album ?
    3.) A fall television season that doesn't suck?
    4.)A solution to feed all the hungry, heal all afflictions and cheaply distribute our energy needs - therefore contributing to the overpopulation and global warming problems?
    5.) discover the origin and nature of all Creation?
    6.)why hot dogs are sold packages of ten when the buns are sold in packages of eight?
  • CheapThroat · 1 year ago
    Don't you know that Google is actually a tremendously successful & top secret Federal program to get smart but wacko types cooped up so that they can't create havoc to the economy (like dotcom bubble 1)?
    It has turned out to be a much better investment than building jails, since the program actually makes money, so there's no cost to the tax payers.
    Just watch, the feds will soon corral all those ex-Google types, and herd them into a new program (code name: "have mole").
  • edahan · 1 year ago
    The CULT started with the moonies from Apple - then the Children of the Corn went to Microsoft - then they went to Netscape - THEN THE CRASH HAPPENED AND THEY ALL LAID LOW - then things picked up again and they all went to Google and now they are all hanging out at Facebook. (I intentionally left out eBay because they always tried to sell something from day one).

    Point is - when the upside on stock options disappears, the Children of the Corn move on.

    None of this Holy Shit. . . . stock options.

    This whole Web 2.0 thing threw a new wrinkle on it because it showed up when there was a boat load of VC $$ and a whole new industry (Community). Of course, no one mentioned the fact that while community functions are the finest way to attract, retain and encourage usage - there is also no way to make a dime off of Community.

    Sure, you can talk about selling advertising - but that will never acheive the success of straight porn (check out Zivity.com - at least the guys at BlueRun and Founder's Fund are honest enough to put their money where their mouths have been).

    Same kid - different stock.
  • Pustoolio · 1 year ago
    I'm pretty sure Apple sold stuff from day one. I believe it was the Apple computer, have you heard of it?
  • edahan · 1 year ago
    ClArification - Apple was a product cmpany - eBay was an eCommerce company.
  • acap. · 1 year ago
    In ours jargon wesayeBay is a electroham.
  • Wendy · 1 year ago
    Dude...

    Best. Post. Ever.
  • Mike Cane · 1 year ago
    >>>You've got children of the corn type children.

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
  • acap. · 1 year ago
    Like your story.
  • kcw · 1 year ago
    Oh my God! This ranks up with : http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2006/08/big-secre...

    Very nice!
  • Charlie · 1 year ago
    Fucking hell. Pure genius.
  • Martin · 1 year ago
    That's so effing 150 nanoseconds ago!
    FACEBOOK is the next tech meltdown.
    Then AMAZON...
  • Martian Manchowder · 1 year ago
    Oh hell, Amazon has been melting down for the past five years. It's just melting so slowly people are sick of watching it. Kind of like Sun.
  • Linus · 1 year ago
    Google may end up setting like the Sun...but not before Apple rots for the same reasons.
  • arv · 1 year ago
    microsoft guys will give to read this post and feel omnipresent
  • Fake Apple Employee · 1 year ago
    Unfortunately all too true.
  • topazz · 1 year ago
    tire shredders are too messy. When all you want is to shake the kids up and show 'em who's the boss - then you get one of these babies. (watch the video) Bonus: the electronic version could be programmed to activate from an iphone. A little more expensive, but google can afford it.
  • Fake VC · 1 year ago
    Seriously, this is the greatest article about Google ever. It's a shame people don't write this in real live newspapers.
  • acap. · 1 year ago
    Yes, very unsatisfying, nobody makes advertisement for Google.
  • Dennis Gorelik · 1 year ago
    Steve, how do you know that Larry is running Google?
    Why not Sergey or Eric?
  • FHC · 1 year ago
    Because Sergey doesn't speak English, and Eric is well.... squirrel boy is just not the brightest on the planet. But that's why he supports me.... easy to get money from him. He doesn't like Osama.
  • christofay · 1 year ago
    Sell on-line text ads for critically important to the economy things like overly complicated and expensive sub-prime loans to poor people, day trading stock services to the unemployed middle-class, and other things that are going to make us rich without requiring any skill, intelligence or effort.

    Oops, that market is drying up
  • MSboys · 1 year ago
    Interesting article. More than one former MS employee who left for Google has returned back to the hive.
  • Brinke · 1 year ago
    Weirdly smart...semi-nasty...believes they're (a) superior being.....(doesn't ) take criticism well.......

    Hmmm. Who does that remind me of. Down in Cupertino..It'll come to me.....
  • Tony · 1 year ago
    Funny!
  • lastangelman · 1 year ago
    It's one thing going off to Facebook, but this guy is heading off to EMI., not a traditionally tech friendly corporation. Either he'll demand and get absolute power to achieve his goals or he'll quit in three months and play hacky-sack in the park.
  • Ward · 1 year ago
  • Thomas Ross (aka AppleTom) · 1 year ago
    Sheer Brilliance.
  • jafraldo · 1 year ago
    They need to be working on a closed source OS and DRM
  • Greg Horne · 1 year ago
    criticism is easy.
  • Aries · 1 year ago
    THATS RIGHT YOU TELL EM STEVE
    THE BEGINNING OF THE END IS NEAR
  • Jim · 1 year ago
    Bravo!

    This has to be much too close to reality for comfort.

    A+++ highly recommended, would read again.
  • Aaron · 1 year ago
    that was deep man, shock and awe
  • abez · 1 year ago
    seriously!! in complete agreement wid u steve...:) a v nice one!
  • McKinley · 1 year ago
    > Really. Think of all the really interesting and important things that this
    > pool of brainpower could be addressing.

    Like working for McKinsey?
  • Venus · 1 year ago
    So true. I am an ex-googler from AdWords
  • yet another steve · 1 year ago
    And you know what? There is something really evil about taking thousands of the world's smartest young people and using them to sell online text ads more efficiently. Really. Think of all the really interesting and important things that this pool of brainpower could be addressing.


    Ummmm.... you on fire, FS. Only a "fake" blog can speak such truth.
  • Robert McNamara · 1 year ago
    Google shows the Alpha fallacy: the idea that bringing together all the smart people leads you to paradise.
  • mandiees · 1 year ago
    Very eloquently put, FSJ. I for one can attest to the difficulty of quitting a job where they employ the use of tire spikes - I worked in a medical office poking people's arms for much too long for this very reason.
  • vectr · 1 year ago
    There's a good discussion going on over at reddit.
    Great post el Fake-o.

    http://reddit.com/info/6edvj/comments/
  • D Legal · 1 year ago
    One of the best Google articles ever written.
  • SJII · 1 year ago
    Metaphysicially beautiful. Wow.
  • bfwebster · 1 year ago
    Having just read a few articles on 'how I didn't get hired by Google', I'd say that your analysis is spot on. ..bruce..
  • acap. · 1 year ago
    Young peoples work cheaper. Just wait until tomorrow & Google will hire the unborns.
  • jamesaguilar · 1 year ago
    The fundamental flaw of an article like this is the assumption that anyone has a right to decide what "the world's smartest young people" do other than they themselves. Also, it is not the case that most people at Google work on ads. Most people work on improving search and apps, making the internet more useful for real users. The ads themselves also hopefully make the internet more useful to sellers (who, incidentally, are also users of the internet), and yes, even buyers.

    >You've got these weirdly smart and semi-nasty super-spoiled children who really believe they're superior beings who shouldn't have to work too hard and who really don't take criticism well . . .

    I have not found this to be the case.
  • Ickes · 1 year ago
    Hmmmm. Can't take criticism??
  • jamesaguilar · 1 year ago
    Responding to criticism is not the same as an inability to "take" it, though I can forgive your confusion; it is common.
  • Santosh · 1 year ago
    And we forgive your delusion that you are any different. That too is common.
  • jamesaguilar · 1 year ago
    Different from what, precisely? The mythical asshole googlers? My friend, you do not even know me. You should not presume to judge my character based on a few dry arguments.
  • P-man · 1 year ago
    Let me guess: Googler who just heard he might not be as awesome as he thought / was convinced to be...? :-DDD
  • fake eric schoenfeld · 1 year ago
    James is right. Those are the flaws in an otherwise wonderful, hysterical, and insightful article.

    We only see Googlers as nasty/arrogant because that's the media stereotype. I've met a few dozenm, and they were all incredibly nice, though ever-so-slightly cultish. And the cultishness immediately disappeared as soon as that stock price plunge. Like magic.
  • jamesaguilar · 1 year ago
    Most people here are pretty nice. Except me. I am a meanie.
  • -Rz · 1 year ago
    Fookin' Awesome post!

    太好了!
  • AHAHAHAH · 1 year ago
    AAAAAAHAHAHAHA freakin funny.
  • osisbs · 1 year ago
    This is brilliant, FS. You know, everyone always works and works to shoot par in golf and when you do, you pull the ball out of the cup on 18, look around, and nobody really cares. Life is about challenges and art because making money is, after all, something boring people do very well.
  • Fukudome · 1 year ago
    I am pleased that you have made me laugh today. I feel sorry for the spoiled kids who have been given everything and never had to really work hard to get what they need or want or even don't need or don't want. But I am pleased they are all employed and kept in one place away from the real world where they might encounter someone who disagrees with them or even criticizes.
  • Red Herring · 1 year ago
    Dude, that was so cool
  • Sean · 1 year ago
    Hahaha, great one!
  • GestapOOGLE · 1 year ago
    The natural thing that happens when you capitalize off the hard work of the content creators and publishers is that you get this stink about you. You begin to sweat like a pig and then every thing you touch becomes tainted.
    Remember without the publishers that they index, the search engines are nothing. It is up to the independents to take back the web. POWERSET please please don't fail us in our darkest hour.

    The arrogance and hypocrisy run rampant everywhere, but this is a great one to check out. GESTAPOOGLE (dot) COM......

    I'm sure that the frigtard's will try to claim Goodwin's law. I say let them stew in their own ignorance as they gently lay their own heads on the chopping block. History will show them where the landing basket is as they get a nice slice of reality.

    You Rock Steve!!!!!!
  • RG · 1 year ago
    Lol so best!
  • andrew · 1 year ago
    hahah what a great storry dude.

    hahaha
  • rss · 1 year ago
    And seriously, who is this wanker 20-or-30-something tosspot anyway? And who gives a flying frig what fool is willing to pay him big $ for nothing now (EMItards). Hard to take him seriously with such a lame haircut, no real talent to speak of academically (psychology PhD for CIO, yeah as-if), and it's clear he is just some sort of silver-spoon bozo. How such idiots get big paying jobs with Google to begin with is something to wonder about. Clearly not based on skills/experience/etc. That's pretty pathetic in and of itself.
  • Will Robinson · 1 year ago
    You know Steve, you're so right, it's amazing how clear thinking you cult leaders can be sometimes.

    As for Google, well all I have to say is "I use Goggle, because Google is gay"
  • Winslow Theramin · 1 year ago
    Microsoft should just put an Ad Blocker into IE. Shows over.
  • fake b gates · 1 year ago
    don't give them ideas please, anything is better than ms
  • Prosha · 1 year ago
    Awesome!!!!!!
    Psst! Google>secret Gov program>Googlers infiltration >
    "one day former Googlers get a phone call to activate orders........."
  • cmm324 · 1 year ago
    Great post. I never really looked at Google that way before. Nice work FS.
  • akersmc · 1 year ago
    " we've got pony rides on Tuesday afternoons."

    Are they My Little Pony rides?
  • John · 1 year ago
    Facebook poaches Google chef

    April 4, 2008

    There’s always a danger when a key employee leaves for a new company that he or she will stir things up by taking a few co-workers along, but some defections can be particularly grating. Looking to coddle its growing workforce a bit more, Facebook started shopping for its own executive chef in January. And when Sheryl Sandberg came over from Google to become COO last month, she said she knew just the guy at her old place. Everything panned out and now, as Carolyn Jung (until recently, the Merc’s food editor) reports at Food Gal, Josef Desimone has been whisked away to become the new Facecook. Valleywag tells us that Sandberg and Desimone blended well at the Googleplex, quoting one ex-employee saying, “Josef was Sheryl’s favorite chef at Google. Every time she moved buildings, so did he.” Apparently, though, not everyone is steamed at the departure. A health-conscious Googler tells Valleywag, “Everyone hated his cafes. He had the worst heavy, everything-fried menus.” We await the reviews from the new venue. Now the question is whether Google will retaliate — maybe Sergey Brin will hire away Mark Zuckerberg’s personal ski waxer or something.

    http://svextra.com/blogs/gmsv/2008/04/facebook_...
  • Zo · 1 year ago
    Brilliant. Don't never come out here and be a real person.
  • whatshisname · 1 year ago
    You know the craziest thing is that this blog was sent to me by a Googler. Im an ex googler and those are exactly the reasons why i left. And the funniest thing is that my closest fiend whos is also an ex googler left google for the same reason -and heres the freaky part- she had actually GOT an offer from McKinsey which she left for Google for precisely the reasons mentioned here. We talk about this all the time! Theres a whole bunch of us disgruntled ex googlers (and googlers) out there who feel very very cheated...
  • Googler · 1 year ago
    ....but then you put them into this horribly dull and easy drone work on AdWords and AdSense and they're all bored to tears and totally disappointed...

    Very true. You must be thinking of the customer support job where we have to deal with basic account administration, investigating couple of clicks, processing refunds etc. What a challenge! I'm doing this as my core job with 5 years background in online marketing. Why? Well, this is a question I will keep asking myself in the next couple of days.
  • philo · 1 year ago
    i love that word frigtard!!! i'm just a little guy running with about 150k a month in ppc and i do the best i can on the natural side for what they are willing to pay!!! black hat is always just a day away... i pay for my own haircuts and blah blah blah, i absolutely do not get lobster tail for lunch... in fact i'm pretty sure i don't get a lunch... it must be nice to be smart!!! at least now i know what i'm up against!
  • Oprah · 1 year ago
    Negative people upset me too, Steve!
  • Atlanta Fence Company · 1 year ago
    Ha. Excellent image and excellent post! Very Nice!
    Atlanta Fence Company
  • Alex · 1 year ago
    Why are you so obsessed with Good and Evil ???!!!! Google is not as evil as it is Good, it is an excellent business and it will work as long as people have faith in it. This is not the kind of faith where Good or Evil is involved. This is the kind of faith employees, managers, stakeholders and shareholders share to make it work !

    Check out the website http://www.themostpowerfulcompany.com it is fun !
  • Person1 · 1 year ago
    Couldn't have said it better -- Ex-Googler