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"This video is only for employees of GV portfolio companies. Sign in"
BTW, when I worked at Google as a contractor, I had to request access to many papers I wanted to read that by default were just available to employees. Almost always the author/owner would grant access.
“The science of building a scalable sales team” http://www.gv.com/lib/the-science-of-building-a-scalable-sal...
"Lean Product Management" http://www.gv.com/lib/lean-product-management
"Lean Analytics" http://www.gv.com/lib/lean-analytics
YC has been doing this for a while (Essays, Startup School), which also serves as a lead for applicants.
I wish they opened up all the videos as well.
If anybody from this project is reading here, are you abel to change that, or can you comment as to the motivations for how things are classified as public vs privileged?
In the case of our security videos, we've restricted them because there were discussions about particular companies' security needs that aren't appropriate to share publicly. It's unlikely the talk would have been as beneficial to our portfolio companies if people felt the need to hold back knowing the details would be made public.
As casca mentioned, we've opened many of our videos to the public and we'll continue to do so when the workshop leader and audience participants agree: https://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleVentures/videos
At GV our mission first and foremost is to serve the employees of our portfolio companies. Google as a whole is of course dedicated to improving internet security and the company dedicates tons of people and resources to that.
Why not outright filter those videos and only show them to the people with the right permissions?
I agree that from a UX standpoint it isn't great, but I think it achieves two things:
1. gives a hint at what you receive when you're a GV-funded company. Something for potential companies to think about. 2. stops any conspiracy theories about the "Secret Training Videos Google Won't Let You See".