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>>tech-h+(OP)
Google works like crazy to hire all of the smartest and the best people, but do they really need them? Billions and billions in shareholder value could be extracted by hiring a bunch of mid-tier Java programmers and having them farm Ad Words for the next decade, until the first competition shows up.

>>whatsh+Ac
Many great people are hired not necessarily to move Google forward, but so that they don’t move a Google-competitor forward.

>>ulfw+3d
Woah, it must feel great to have so much money to do this kind of "defensive" hires!!