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>>geox+(OP)
Wow, Google has really become the IBM of 2005s. All flashy demos, 'call sales' to try anything.

>>fooker+cg
According to Fiona Cicconi, Google’s chief people officer, Google employed 30,000 managers before the recent layoffs. The hard truth is Google needs a Twitter style culling. Take all those billions you're burning and give it to people with a builder mentality, not career sheeple. Unfortunately the same executives who would oversee this are the ones who need to be culled first.

>>fullse+Ji
How did the Twitter-style culling work out for Twitter?

>>Cobras+9c1
AFAIK it worked out well. Works more-less the same as before, shipped quite a bit of stuff and drastically reduced costs.

>>mrtksn+Qd1
Shipped stuff? Like what?

Threads? Its usage is down 90% since its launch six months ago, presumably because they kept the people who could launch stuff and got rid of the people who had some idea of what should be launched.

The "Blue Checkmark" system? Released with no thought at all, absolute disaster. Steven King had to publicly announce that, despite indications to the contrary, he was not a paid user, and he felt it was important to tell people because he didn't want the idea that he was a paid subscriber to harm his reputation. Same underlying problem: the people who could ship things were still shipping things, but the people who could figure out what to make were gone.

And yes, they did drastically reduce cost...and much more drastically reduce revenue.