Google + Yahoo + Microsoft = More of the Same.
So (consumerwise) Google wants Yahoo's large audience and diversified online product set, but really (for enterprise) it wants to be the New Microsoft which analysts say it could overtake by market cap by 2010.
So it's kinda ironic but stating the obvious, that Google will not be able to retain its employees with exactly the same issue Microsoft had around 1999 onwards (when i was @ 9msn) - With Bear Sterns et al putting $600 on google and it's the 15th biggest company in the US, no employees stock options are going to increase by 10, 20 or 100 times. Probably be lucky to ever double or go up by 50%. Google stock at $1200 over a 3 year quartely vest anyone ?
Microsoft responded by offering higher cash salaries but it didn't work. So I wonder what Google will do to buck the trend of maverick employees leaving to bust their own thang. If they can cut it that is. Carve out the Pagerank thesis and Adsense - you are hiding alot of untested PHd fat. In Revenge of the Nerds Movie, do the Nerds actually get revenge ?
CNN Money : "Armed with seven-figure bank accounts and professional networks of dozens of other equally brilliant and rich new friends, those frustrated Googlers are bound to set out on their own and ignite a son-of-Google wave of innovation. If a company the size of PayPal can kick off a second wave that includes LinkedIn, Slide, Yelp, YouTube, Clarium Capital, and Room 9 Entertainment, among others, the sons-of-Google wave should be a world-changer."
So it's kinda ironic but stating the obvious, that Google will not be able to retain its employees with exactly the same issue Microsoft had around 1999 onwards (when i was @ 9msn) - With Bear Sterns et al putting $600 on google and it's the 15th biggest company in the US, no employees stock options are going to increase by 10, 20 or 100 times. Probably be lucky to ever double or go up by 50%. Google stock at $1200 over a 3 year quartely vest anyone ?
Microsoft responded by offering higher cash salaries but it didn't work. So I wonder what Google will do to buck the trend of maverick employees leaving to bust their own thang. If they can cut it that is. Carve out the Pagerank thesis and Adsense - you are hiding alot of untested PHd fat. In Revenge of the Nerds Movie, do the Nerds actually get revenge ?
CNN Money : "Armed with seven-figure bank accounts and professional networks of dozens of other equally brilliant and rich new friends, those frustrated Googlers are bound to set out on their own and ignite a son-of-Google wave of innovation. If a company the size of PayPal can kick off a second wave that includes LinkedIn, Slide, Yelp, YouTube, Clarium Capital, and Room 9 Entertainment, among others, the sons-of-Google wave should be a world-changer."
posted by redbarren at 12:51 AM
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