Why is it so complicated for people to understand Google’s people success?
Stop treating people like farm animals and you’ll do alright for yourself. Continue Reading
Facebook might not be popular among teens, but it’ll still rule their lives
Follow the bouncing ball: Even though people bitch about it all the time, Facebook is a fairly dominant platform. That said, it has some issues. Especially with teenagers. (Although buying Instagram was a good play.) Its core business, though, is really the… Continue Reading
The New Business: RIP, Product and Inventory
This shit may blow your mind. Consider: Uber is the world’s largest taxi company. It doesn’t own any vehicles. Facebook is the world’s largest media company. It doesn’t produce any of its own content. Alibaba is the world’s most valuable… Continue Reading
Patrick Pichette (Google CFO) story: Yep, it’s awesome. But uh, he’s rich.
This Patrick Pichette story (he was the CFO of Google) is going a little bit viral today. Here’s the basic rundown. He retired from a plum job way before you’d think an average American male in such a job would retire,… Continue Reading
There are about 124 million Google searches per month for “porn”
I’ve written about porn a couple of times — here and here — and while I try not to write about it a lot, lest this start being viewed as spam, I do believe it’s an important topic to touch… Continue Reading
The simple lesson of Google and YouTube, Facebook and Instagram
Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006. In 2014, YouTube alone will be responsible for about 20 percent of all digital ad revenue, top $1 billion in video ad revenue, and is quite possibly worth about $40 billion right now.… Continue Reading
What do Google’s top 10 searches of 2014 say about humanity?
Had this e-mail dialogue with my friends last night (by “dialogue” I mean I responded to one e-mail, then no one responded after me). Figured I’d move it over here. If you’d like to see a little bit about the… Continue Reading
Social engagement doesn’t matter. Stop measuring it.
As a drunk kid in Vegas once told me (read the post), “We don’t get paid in likes and clicks.” Continue Reading