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Ed Zitron

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

These emails, which I really encourage you to look up, and if you go to wheresyoured.at, you'll be able to see a newsletter that has links to them, Well, these emails tell a dramatic story about how Google's finance and advertising teams, led by Raghavan with the blessing of CEO Sundar Pichai, the McKinsey guy, actively work to make Google worse to make the company more money.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

These emails, which I really encourage you to look up, and if you go to wheresyoured.at, you'll be able to see a newsletter that has links to them, Well, these emails tell a dramatic story about how Google's finance and advertising teams, led by Raghavan with the blessing of CEO Sundar Pichai, the McKinsey guy, actively work to make Google worse to make the company more money.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

This is exactly what I mean when I talk about the economy, an illogical product-destroying mindset that turns products you love into torturous, frustrating quasi-tools that require you to fight the company to get the thing you want. Ben Gomes was instrumental in making search work, both as a product and a business.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

This is exactly what I mean when I talk about the economy, an illogical product-destroying mindset that turns products you love into torturous, frustrating quasi-tools that require you to fight the company to get the thing you want. Ben Gomes was instrumental in making search work, both as a product and a business.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

This is exactly what I mean when I talk about the economy, an illogical product-destroying mindset that turns products you love into torturous, frustrating quasi-tools that require you to fight the company to get the thing you want. Ben Gomes was instrumental in making search work, both as a product and a business.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

He joined the company in 1999, a time long before Google established dominance in the field, and the same year when Larry Page and Sergey Brin tried to sell the company to Excite for $1 million, only to walk away after Vinod Khosla, an Excite investor and co-founder of Sun Microsystems that's now...

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

He joined the company in 1999, a time long before Google established dominance in the field, and the same year when Larry Page and Sergey Brin tried to sell the company to Excite for $1 million, only to walk away after Vinod Khosla, an Excite investor and co-founder of Sun Microsystems that's now...

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

He joined the company in 1999, a time long before Google established dominance in the field, and the same year when Larry Page and Sergey Brin tried to sell the company to Excite for $1 million, only to walk away after Vinod Khosla, an Excite investor and co-founder of Sun Microsystems that's now...

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

a VC who tried to stop people going to a beach in Half Moon Bay, well, he tried to lowball them with a $750,000 offer, also known as a 100-square-foot apartment in San Francisco. In an interview with Fast Company's Harry McCracken from 2018, Gomes frayed Google's challenge as taking the PageRank algorithm from one machine to a whole bunch of machines.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

a VC who tried to stop people going to a beach in Half Moon Bay, well, he tried to lowball them with a $750,000 offer, also known as a 100-square-foot apartment in San Francisco. In an interview with Fast Company's Harry McCracken from 2018, Gomes frayed Google's challenge as taking the PageRank algorithm from one machine to a whole bunch of machines.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

a VC who tried to stop people going to a beach in Half Moon Bay, well, he tried to lowball them with a $750,000 offer, also known as a 100-square-foot apartment in San Francisco. In an interview with Fast Company's Harry McCracken from 2018, Gomes frayed Google's challenge as taking the PageRank algorithm from one machine to a whole bunch of machines.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

And they weren't very good machines at the time. Despite his impact and tenure, Gomes had only been made head of search in the middle of 2018, after John Ghiondouria moved to Apple to work on its machine learning and AI strategy. Gomes had been described as Google's search czar, beloved for his ability to communicate across Google's many quite decentralized departments.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

And they weren't very good machines at the time. Despite his impact and tenure, Gomes had only been made head of search in the middle of 2018, after John Ghiondouria moved to Apple to work on its machine learning and AI strategy. Gomes had been described as Google's search czar, beloved for his ability to communicate across Google's many quite decentralized departments.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

And they weren't very good machines at the time. Despite his impact and tenure, Gomes had only been made head of search in the middle of 2018, after John Ghiondouria moved to Apple to work on its machine learning and AI strategy. Gomes had been described as Google's search czar, beloved for his ability to communicate across Google's many quite decentralized departments.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

Every single article I've read about Gomes and his tenure at Google spoke of a man deeply ingrained in the foundation of one of the most important technologies ever made. A man who had dedicated decades to maintaining a product with a, and I quote Gomes here, guiding light of serving the user. and using technology to do that.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

Every single article I've read about Gomes and his tenure at Google spoke of a man deeply ingrained in the foundation of one of the most important technologies ever made. A man who had dedicated decades to maintaining a product with a, and I quote Gomes here, guiding light of serving the user. and using technology to do that.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

Every single article I've read about Gomes and his tenure at Google spoke of a man deeply ingrained in the foundation of one of the most important technologies ever made. A man who had dedicated decades to maintaining a product with a, and I quote Gomes here, guiding light of serving the user. and using technology to do that.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

And when finally given the keys to the kingdom, the ability to elevate Google search even further, he was rat-fucked by a series of rotten careerists trying to please Wall Street, led by Prabhakar Raghavan. Do you want to know what Prabhakar Raghavan's old job was?

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

And when finally given the keys to the kingdom, the ability to elevate Google search even further, he was rat-fucked by a series of rotten careerists trying to please Wall Street, led by Prabhakar Raghavan. Do you want to know what Prabhakar Raghavan's old job was?

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

And when finally given the keys to the kingdom, the ability to elevate Google search even further, he was rat-fucked by a series of rotten careerists trying to please Wall Street, led by Prabhakar Raghavan. Do you want to know what Prabhakar Raghavan's old job was?