Dear Google Developer… Its Time To Leave Your Job
Dear Google Developer or person thinking about trying to join Google,
Your job is not entrepreneurial. I hate hearing the line – “Google is so entrepreneurial, its like a startup!”.
Real entrepreneurs have to worry about money and resources. If you work at Google, you do not.
Real entrepreneurs have to worry about awareness and marketing and doing it affordably and on a budget. Tech blogs broadcast every word from the mouth of Google.
Real entrepreneurs have to worry about culture, they can’t just hire a bunch of hyper-rational introverts with no friends, who are massively arrogant about their math skills…and cookie cutter follower zombies in the world of technology.
Real entrepreneurs have to buy their own lunch. They don’t get fat off of morning Googley donuts.
Real entrepreneurs have to worry about profitability and making customers happy, they can’t just invade the privacy of all their customers and launch buzz on them.
Honestly, for the life of me, I can’t fathom why a developer would go take a job at Google. Its like being an awesome carpenter and saying “I want to go work at Ikea” so I can churn out follower products like an open-source mobile OS 5 years after Symbian or web-based email 10 years after Hotmail or a webOS 3 years after Palm did it. Way to gooooo, you are such wonderful innovators, you are applying the Microsoft method of “do it several years after everybody else”. I’m sure they haven’t been burned by that, and I’m sure you won’t either.
Anyways, all this to say, if you want to try to do things differently, if you want actual, real entrepreneurial experience and a real start-up job… we need a killer dev at Peek. I dare you to get up off your comfy Googly job and email me dan at getpeek. You will work on some of the coolest tech in the business. We believe the fat world of HTML & javascript isn’t right for mobile, we want to make OSs, protocols, devices and apps that can be used across the whole world, not just by upper-middle class westerners who have broad 3G deployments and money to buy $400 devices.
