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In short, if Microsoft is the new IBM, Google is the new Microsoft - the defining company of the industry. Both Google and Microsoft are giant talent vacuum cleaners, hoovering up everyone with an IQ a few standard deviations above the norm. Each has a Nietzschean will to power, a conviction of the rightness of its mission, and propensity to act in ways which are regarded as arrogant.
Since Google is no longer the hot new startup, those ambitious new startups are themselves trying to become the new Google.
It’s a giant game of musical chairs.
— Mitch Kapor on Musical Chairs 3 years ago
