Before discussing the aforementioned title I just wanted to point out that Exxon had a record setting year last year, and so did Shell. Our President and his staff made large sums of money due to their oil investments(Yes, Condeleeza too). They also will get a tax break. Our President's earnings will be more recession proof than any other citizen in the country. Somehow this reminds me of the dictators and warlords revenue structure which is to make more than everyone else and to profit on his own people's suffering.
Google is a combination of Microsoft and Yahoo with a little bit of Bell sprinkled in. They started off as a service based search engine like yahoo and evolved to a software company. Microsoft is a software company trying to profit off of web activity like Google and Yahoo.
Meanwhile, the latter is a web company that lacks the ability to become a software company. The software is what will allow them to expand and they don't have the business and technical savvy to grow at the previous rates. Google is adding infrastructure and utilities to their tool belt. This gives them more name power than Microsoft because Google can provide a larger solution. Yahoo stopped playing chess and ran out of options.
I told this to MS today when I interviewed with them in verbatim(almost anyway).
I told them that Google was their number 1 threat and them bidding on Yahoo was a testament.
They had a philosophical interview and asked the following:
What the difference between leadership and management
What is the difference between vision and strategy
What is the difference in a core problem and a symptom
What is the difference between small and large company
How do you think I did getting asked those questions?
The goal is to be so good that they allow me to work in the Bay.
JT Morgan, The Engineering Capitalist!
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