30 Android != Google1
Nobody in those early years ever doubted that anybody else was not in for the cause. We were all on the same train.
—Brian Jones
From the beginning, Android had a culture that was very distinct from the rest of Google. Even though the tiny Android startup was absorbed into the much larger company, Andy went out of his way to keep the team separate.
Jason Parks said, “Andy and the leadership team realized for this to succeed we needed to be separate from the larger Google culture and come up with our own culture to make this happen. I don’t know how he sold it to Eric, Larry, and Sergey, but he got it done. We were isolated and operated like a small startup, with funding from Google.”
Mike Cleron said that Andy keeping ...
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