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Is Google Too Smart For Its Own Good?

Posted by kdawson on from the sowing-seeds dept.

An anonymous reader writes in with a piece in Fortune speculating on what's next for Google. The writer believes that a supersaturated solution of very smart people, plus stock that may have run out of upside, will yield what he calls Son of Google — a large wave of innovative companies created by Google graduates. And a Google less intent on hiring, and less able to hire, the very smartest people around. Could happen.

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  1. That's an interesting idea by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 4, Informative

    Kind of how Failchild Semiconductor was the wellspring for many of todays semiconductor companies? This graphic (PDF warning) was the best thing I could find.

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