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Not sure why people ever believed that Don't be evil propaganda. You can hand out all those cute Google t-shirts, pens, give free lunches, give free massages, give mom's good maternity, etc.. doesn't really matter..

You're a business and a public one at that... that means you'll do anything for profit, just like every other company.



>that means you'll do anything for profit, just like every other company.

As a company director I repudiate this so hard.

Most companies? Most-probably. Every company? Not at all.


Most large multinationals, almost definitely.


Every Company that has stock holders? Absolutely.


That's not true.

Google's two-tier share structure specifically means they do not need to act in anyway that Page and Brin don't want to.

Even if every other shareholder hated everything they did, Page & Brin's shares will always out-vote them because each share they own is worth 10 votes of anyone else.[1]

[1] "The actual voting power of the insiders is much higher, however, as Google has a dual class stock structure in which each Class B share gets ten votes compared to each Class A share getting one." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google




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