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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who has since moved on to greener and perhaps more dangerous pastures, told an audience of Stanford students recently that

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who has since moved on to greener and perhaps more dangerous pastures, told an audience of Stanford students recently that “Google decided that work-life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning.” Evidently this hot take was not for wider consumption, as Stanford — which posted the video this week on YouTube — today made the video of the event private.

  • mercEnglish
    123·
    4 months ago

    Just because you think of something while eating a sandwich that Google paid for, that doesn’t mean they own it.

    Ok, feel free to argue that against Google’s lawyers. The law may be on your side, but the lawyers aren’t.

    • KevonLooney@lemm.eeEnglish
      41·
      4 months ago

      In California it’s totally fine. That’s why there’s so many tech startups there. It’s not taxes.

      • mercEnglish
        23·
        4 months ago

        That may be the law, but Google isn’t likely to just accept it without fighting it.

        • KevonLooney@lemm.eeEnglish
          51·
          4 months ago

          It happens all the time. Almost everyone who starts a new tech company has worked in a different one.

          • mercEnglish
            22·
            4 months ago

            Almost everyone who starts a new tech company has worked in a different one.

            Yes, most people have previously held jobs.

            And sometimes Google sues former employees.

            • KevonLooney@lemm.eeEnglish
              6·
              4 months ago

              Uh, that guy actually did steal literal IP. Uber was founded by an asshole who didn’t care about breaking the law.

              six weeks before his resignation, Levandowski downloaded all these highly confidential files and proprietary design files