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> "What's been amazing to me is how skin-deep the stated values across the tech industry were."

The whole "Don't be evil" brouhaha several years ago didn't clue people in? It was marketing fluff from the beginning but it should have been obvious even to the most oblivious that it was marketing fluff by the time it was removed.

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It wasn't marketing fluff at the beginning. Young Google was a uniquely ethical organization. I think the problem has been how you sustain that culture.

That's a deep problem. Checks-and-balances are hard, and Google had none. Ergo, it went from good to evil.

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