Chris Sacca's 'what Is Left?'
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Big Company, Small Company
via Chris Sacca's 'What is left?' by Christopher on February 06, 2008
Google has done a better job of any outfit I know at retaining a small company feeling despite massive growth in its employee ranks. The shared information, distributed decision-making, and entrepreneurial encouragement all give Googlers a stronger start-up sense than has ever been possible while juggling 16,000+ employees. Just how many people is that? Click here to get a staggering sense thanks...
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Openness Wins
via Chris Sacca's 'What is left?' by Christopher on January 30, 2008
A quick check of the FCC Auction 73 site this morning reveals that the bidding in Round 17 pushed the provisional winning bid for the nationwide C block of 700MHz spectrum over the $4.6 billion reserve price. As a result, openness principles will now apply to all use of that spectrum. While the auction is by no means over, and I am as curious as anyone to see who ultimately emerges as the...
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Channeling Decision-makers
via Chris Sacca's 'What is left?' by Christopher on February 11, 2008
For reasons I won't get into here, before the Microsoft bid to buy Yahoo, I had been spending a lot of time learning about Yahoo and considering its prospects. In parallel, during the days preceding their latest earnings release, a number of journalists had been interviewing me for perspectives on Yahoo and, specifically, Jerry Yang and his management style as perceived by competitors. Most...
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If it's easy, and it works, high usage shouldn't be a surprise
via Chris Sacca's 'What is left?' by Christopher on February 17, 2008
With interest, I read recent accounts of Google's new mobile leader, former MSFT exec Vic Gundotra, exclaiming his shock that iPhone users sent fifty times the number of queries to Google than other mobile device users. "We thought it was a mistake and made our engineers check the logs again,” he relayed to the Financial Times. Yet, when I discussed this theme with former colleagues at...
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Not So Clear For Me
via Chris Sacca's 'What is left?' by Christopher on March 02, 2008
My friend Brad Feld recently posted a ringing endorsement for Clear, a company contracting with the TSA and individual airports to offer accelerated passage through security check lines. Essentially, for $100 a year(after a pre-screening that costs an additional $28), the Clear program employees escort participating travelers to the front of the security line. As I still find myself flying once...
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Twenty Years of Eric, Larry, and Sergey
via Chris Sacca's 'What is left?' by Christopher on January 27, 2008
I am frequently asked how long I think Eric, Larry, or Sergey will stick around at Google. Folks query, "Those guys have made unfathomable amounts of money and must have other things they would like to do with their time, no?" I have never known how to respond to such a question. In my time there, I didn't ever get the sense any of the three of them wished they were doing anything other...
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The NYT should be embarrassed, and then embarrassed some more.
via Chris Sacca's 'What is left?' by Christopher on June 04, 2008
Yesterday's New York Times featured a piece entitled "Experts Revive Debate over Cellphones and Cancer" which illustrates that all it takes to overturn inscrutable science conducted over hundreds of entirely conclusive studies is a Larry King appearance by three surgeons with PR agents. The article clearly states the unwavering conclusion of the science community: "Cellphones emit...
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