[uptownfunk]

All large tech co's seem to be kind of the same more or less, having worked at most faang co's in my career. They become so big, especially after peaking on their core revenue-driving business (ads for FB, GOOG, and retail/cloud for AMZN/AWS, hardware devices for APPL) that you essentially regress towards some type of "mean" which seems to be a byproduct of scaling. Because exceptional people are several SDs above the mean, with every incremental hire you regress to the mean (unless you are really, really, really good at hiring).

Ultimately I think it is the illusion of a moat (we are too big to fail, we are the default search engine/browser/os etc.) Coupled with over hiring. Along with a fear of taking risk and willingness to disrupt yourself. Ultimately, they became too fearful and focused on building a wall around the kingdom than expanding the kingdom.

Also is it just me, or has the execution from GOOG just been really disappointing? Look at this talk [0] These are not innovators, these are business leaders. Google (and many big tech like AMZN/AWS) have become more packed with these "business leaders" types and not the core, quirky, unusual and strange innovator types. I think it is very much a regression to the "above average" which has killed the ability to launch / productize new technologies (vs. new businesses..)

[0] https://youtu.be/yLWXJ22LUEc?t=829