Fact is, Sergey wanted to tap a nice Biotech student. Med/Bio students can be hot with the most pernicious attitudes. Real uptight and impossible to work with.
She should be playing with test tubes somewhere. But instead she's the personal blow up doll for Brin. Drill away!
Edit: I hope I don't get PI's tracking me down because of this. CEO's get pretty pissed when you make jokes about who they're banging that decade.
I realize that this may come across as harping, but...
Google has invested in Wojcicki's company at the behest of a founder. Google is not subject to the marriage contract and because 23andMe is still in the startup phase, it hasn't produced any value for Google's shareholders. Any future investments would be subject to the whim of Sergey;
Expect us to add benefits rather than pare them down over time. We believe it is easy to be penny wise and pound foolish with respect to benefits that can save employees considerable time and improve their health and productivity.
doesn't every company started by some fruit-booted shitass in a garage that makes it big go through the same tired cycle of plucky-futurist-luxuriating in cash-cutthroat-obsolete- bankrupt? isn't that observation also cliched? where am i? why don't i have any pants? can i borrow change for the bus?
If you click through to Google trends today, you'd find that "make your own barcode" is pretty popular for obvious reasons.
If one were to make their own barcodes and if they were to print it on the right kind of tape, trying to get a refrigerator for a dollar or shooting for a 25¢ DiGiorno might be called indicative of the economy.
@goetz: Greenspan made his money in real estate in Las Vegas. I think the story is that Howard Hughes (?) predicted to him that Las Vegas would grow like a weed so Greenspan bought lots of land far from what was then the city that is named Green-something now.
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She should be playing with test tubes somewhere. But instead she's the personal blow up doll for Brin. Drill away!
Edit: I hope I don't get PI's tracking me down because of this. CEO's get pretty pissed when you make jokes about who they're banging that decade.
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Google has invested in Wojcicki's company at the behest of a founder. Google is not subject to the marriage contract and because 23andMe is still in the startup phase, it hasn't produced any value for Google's shareholders. Any future investments would be subject to the whim of Sergey;
So, what does NOW think of this power dynamic?
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... until they don't
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If one were to make their own barcodes and if they were to print it on the right kind of tape, trying to get a refrigerator for a dollar or shooting for a 25¢ DiGiorno might be called indicative of the economy.
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Interesting factoid #23: complete.
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