Steve Yegge, "What Would You Do With Your Own Google?" - OSCON Data 2011
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Why leaders watch it
Yegge's talk on what a large company can enable and why he left, with views on innovation inside big firms.
Steve Yegge's OSCON Data 2011 talk imagines what you could do with Google-scale storage and compute a decade later. He argues smart people should work on hard problems such as biology rather than cat pictures, and the talk ends with a moment many took as him quitting Google.
Takeaways
- Big firms can suppress what talented engineers want to build
- Resources are wasted without ambition
- Retain people by letting them pursue large ideas
Topics: Culture & values, Career & life advice
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