Founder who sold his startup to Google says the company has lost its mission, is mismanaged and has no sense of urgency

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A former Google employee said the technology giant is inefficient, plagued by mismanagement and paralyzed by risk.

's artificial intelligence initiatives. Seshadri said Google's problems are not rooted in its technology, but in its culture.

Seshadri said Google is hyper-focused on risk and that "risk mitigation trumps everything else." Every line of code, every launch, nonobvious decisions, changes from protocol and disagreements are all risks that Googlers have to approach with caution, Seshadri wrote. "Overall, it is a soft peacetime culture where nothing is worth fighting for," Seshadri wrote "The people who are inclined to fight on behalf of customers or new ideas or creativity soon learn the downside of doing so."

 

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