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.

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    3 months ago

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

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      3 months ago

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

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        3 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.

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          3 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